(In the wake of the history-rewriting Crisis on Infinite Earths comic book, Dinah was retroactively given founder status for the Justice League, in fact.) It wasn’t until 1996’s Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey No. The second Dinah Lance became a mainstay of the Justice League, and also the girlfriend of Green Arrow, soon after arriving on Earth-1, with those two facts becoming her defining characteristics for decades to follow, arguably more than her own abilities or personality. (The original Dinah was, instead, in stasis in between different Earths, because of course she was.) Her powers showed up in 1969, after the character was revived and added to the cast of the Justice League of America title, with the explanation being that she had traveled between parallel Earths and that had, somehow, created her ability to use a “canary cry” that could be used as an ultrasonic weapon.Īs part of the 1983 retcon, it was revealed that Dinah Drake - now Dinah Lance, having married Larry Lance, the detective of her dreams, who’d been tragically killed in the line of duty - hadn’t actually traveled between worlds, or gained powers both of those things had happened to her previously unknown daughter, also called Dinah Lance, who … believed herself to be her mother for reasons that don’t really make sense or need to be dwelled on. Originally the charming mix of florist by day, crime-fighter by night, Dinah Drake had no superpowers to help her deal with bad guys, only some vague martial arts training and a pure heart. 220, there’s two and they’re mother and daughter. 86, Black Canary’s comic book history is complicated by the fact that there’s not one Black Canary - indeed, thanks to a retcon in 1983’s Justice League of America No. 19 as they celebrate the Man of Steel revealing his identity to the public, suggesting a shift in DC’s internal attitude about which side of the divide the character is on, if nothing else …įirst appearing in 1947’s Flash Comics No.
Notably, she appears alongside the heroes of the DC universe in January’s Superman No. In the 2018-2019 Heroes in Crisis miniseries, she even teams up with Batgirl to help solve the mystery behind the mass slaughter of a number of superheroes, with the two having a heartfelt discussion about the trauma motivating the character in the process. 25, Harley gets something approaching closure on her unhealthy relationship with the Joker, finally rejecting him and moving on. There is, however, one significant change that resulted from the new status quo: Harley went from villain - or, at best, nuisance - into something approaching sympathetic protagonist. Certain storylines and affiliations may have disappeared in the process - say goodbye to the Gotham City Sirens, who no longer teamed up in the revised timeline - but Harley herself emerged relatively unscathed. One of the more surprising things about Harley is that her history didn’t change considerably even when DC’s 2011 The New 52 relaunch rebooted the entire canon of its comic book universe. (Since 2013, she’s also had her very own family of misfits living in Coney Island, as a result of the successful Harley Quinn solo series.) In comics, Harley has been released from the Joker’s clutches for most of her existence, but has continually found herself building new families and teams to make up for that, whether it’s the Gotham City Sirens - an anti-hero team with Catwoman and Poison Ivy that existed from 2009 through 2011 - or the Suicide Squad, where she’s been active since 2011. Where things go after that is where stories start to change. The comic book backstory of Harley is consistent with the big screen version: She’s a former psychiatrist whose attempts to treat the Joker led to her falling in love with him, and then being transformed from Harleen Quinzel to Harley Quinn via chemical means.
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