Name: Black Canary
Universe: Earth-1
Alter Ego: Dinah Laurel Lance
Occupation: Florist
Marital Status: Single
Group Affiliation: Justice League of America
Base of Operations: Star City
Known Relatives: Richard Drake (grandfather, deceased), Larry and Dinah Drake Lance (parents, deceased)
Height: 5 ft. 5 in.
Weight: 127 lbs.
Hair Color: Blond (wig)
Eye Color: Blue
First Appearance: Justice League of America #75
History:
Born the child of the original Black Canary and her husband Larry Lance, Dinah Laurel Lance was cursed by the villainous Wizard, transforming the child’s cries into a sonic scream of destructive proportions.
Unable to cure the child, Black Canary and Larry asked Johnny Thunder to have his genie-like magic thunderbolt take the child into his own mystical dimension, where he kept her in suspended animation, her body growing into young womanhood while she slept. As a final gesture, the thunderbolt made Johnny and the Lances forget what had really happened, allowing them to believe the baby had died.
Years later, while battling beside a reactivated Justice Society, Larry Lance was slain, and the Black Canary fatally irradiated by the alien monster called Aquarius. The Canary’s critical condition was not immediately apparent, and she decided to leave Earth-Two forever to begin life anew on Earth-One.
In the course of the transdimensional journey, the Canary began to succumb to her wounds and begged Superman to let her see her child’s grave one last time. Instead, the Man of Steel brought her to the thunderbolt’s dimension, where she discovered her daughter was still alive. When the dying Canary wished that her daughter could take her place, the thunderbolt transferred Dinah Drake Lance’s memories into her sleeping daughter’s mind, erasing the memory that the Black Canary was now her own daughter.
After putting the original Black Canary and her husband to rest in the thunderbolt dimension. Superman carried the new Black Canary to Earth-One and a new life.
Powers:
A superb athlete, the Black Canary is also a master of martial arts.
Black Canary also possesses a sonic scream which is capable of physically destructive force.
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