ALANNA

Real Name: Alanna Strange

Class: Extraterrestrial (Rannian)

Occupation: Adventurer, mother

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Sardath (father), Adam Strange (husband), Aleea Strange (daughter)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Ranagar, Rann

First Appearance: Showcase #17 (December, 1958)

Powers: Alanna was highly intelligent and a capable combatant. She had access to Rannian tech, including ray-guns.

History: Alanna was the daughter of Rannian scientist Sardath. After a nuclear war the men of Rann were left infertile, and Sardath was desperate for a way to preserve the race. He discovered Earth, and learned that humans would be genetically compatible with Rannians. He used Zeta Beam technology to transport Earthman Adam Strange to Rann, claiming it was an accident, and that he only wanted to establish communications with Earth. In truth he hoped Adam Strange would fall for his daughter. Adam became a hero of Rann, protecting the planet from all sorts of danger, and Alanna became his companion, aiding him in many dangerous adventures.

(Mystery In Space #53) - Adam Strange was taken to Rann by Zeta Beam and met Allana, who showed him a giant robot gifted to the Rannians by the Griks. The robots ran amok, attacking Ranagar, and they suspected the Griks, but found them to be innocent. It was Vor Kan, the Rannian in charge of maintaining the robots, who was plotting to overthrow the city, and Adam made short work of him. Immediately afterward the Zeta Beam wore off and Adam returned to earth.

(DC Comics Presents #3) - Sardath performed an experiment to stabilize the Zeta effect, and Kaskor used the opportunity to use his Zeta-Booster to switch Earth and Rann’s places in their respective solar systems and send Strange to Earth. Kaskor decided that if he couldn’t rule Rann he’d destroy it; when the Booster wore off Rann would return to its rightful place in Alpha Centuri and both Earth and Rann would explode. Superman was off-world during these events, and when he found Earth gone, Sardath explained the situation and he and Alanna pleaded with him to help. Superman and Strange teamed-up to defeat Kaskor, and used a spacewarp to return Earth to the Milky Way moments before Rann returned to Alpha Centuri. Alanna asked Strange if visiting his home made him miss it, but he assured her that he was home on Rann.

(Justice League of America I #120, 121) - With Adam Strange permenantly on Rann, and with a distinct lack of planetary menaces, Adam proposed to Alanna. The day before their wedding ceremony a giant flying lens that once terrorized Rann seemingly vaporized Alanna. Adam lost his edge and drive after her supposed death. Kanjar Ro was behind the attack in an attempt to manipulate Adam Strange to send for the Justice League of America so he could destroy them on Rann. Kanjar had actually transformed Alanna into a black sphere and hid it in a remote ice cave. He wanted her alive so he would have leverage against Adam if his initial plan failed. After the Justice League of America defeated Kanbjar Ro, Adam Strange revived Alanna, and they were wedded on Rann.

(Strange Adventures II #1, 2) - Gavyn offered the Rannians refuge on Throneworld, making it the New Rann. On Old Rann Strange and Alanna recovered the Rannian tech they could transport and blew everything else up to keep it out of the hands of the Thanagarians. Adam Strange reported the disappearance of a star to Sardath and Alanna, but Sardath pointed out that his star was never on the star chart. Adam Strange concluded that reality itself was being altered, and Sardath called him mad and delusional.

(R.E.B.E.L.S. #16) - Adam Strange offered Vril Dox Rann as a location to rebuild the L.E.G.I.O.N., and Vril promised he could find a way to revitalize the lifeless planet. Strange and Sardath took Vril to Ran, which was still a painful sight to Adam. He reflected on the many times he'd saved the planet, bemoaning that it took one failure to undo all the good he did. Sardath did not believe Vril could bring life back to Rann, and found him to be intolerably arrogant because he himself had tried and found the situation hopeless. Vril dismissed him, saying all he needed to do was move the planet's current location and asking Sardath for the largest zeta-beam he had. Vril used the zeta-beam to teleport Rann to the former location of Tamaran in the Vegan system, and cloned samples of Rann's native flora and fauna to make the planet habitable. He intended to rebuild the L.E.G.I.O.N. using lifeforms instead of robots, and to clean up the Vegan system to regain his reputation The Rannians returned home, and Alanna and Atlee were overjoyed, but Sardath warned them he feared Adam had made a deal with the devil.

(R.E.B.E.L.S. #24) - Adam Strange and Alanna shared some quality time. She admitted that she never thought she'd time with him for such long periods, and he assured her he'd never get sick of her.

(R.E.B.E.L.S. #26, 28) - The R.E.B.E.L.S. left Rann to track down Starro the Conqueror, and Sardath and his men scoured Rann for Starros, but missed a number of them that had already turned Rannians into mindslaves. The Starros took over the military, and before long Sardath was one of them. Aleea became a mindslave, and surprised her mother by placing a Starro on her face. The R.E.B.E.L.S. returned to battle Starro, and when he was near defeat he was ready to order the Rannians to commit suicide, but was prevented by Vril Dox, who pushed him through a transmatter portal to the Psion homeworld.

Comments: Created by Gardner Fox & Mike Sekowsky

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