BLACK CANARY II

Real Name: Dinah Laurel Lance

Class: Human mutant

Occupation: Florist, superhero

Group Affiliation: Birds of Prey, formerly Justice League of America I, JSA, Justice League of America II

Known Relatives: Richard Drake (grandfather, deceased), Dinah Drake Lance (Black Canary I, mother), Larry Lance (father, deceased), Craig Windrow (ex-husband)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New York City, New York, formerly Seattle, Washington

First Appearance: Justice League of America I #75 (November, 1969)

Powers: Canary was a skilled martial artist and detective. She could project a powerful sonic scream capable of shattering glass and steel, and disorientating opponents.

History: Dinah was the daughter of mysterywoman Black Canary, and although her mother was retired from crimefighting, Dinah grew up with JSA luminaries as extended family members, and she was fascinated with their history and adventures. When Dinah became a young woman she discovered that she had mutant sonic powers, and she was determined to become the new Black Canary, although her mother was firmly against this course of action. The new Black Canary became a founding member of the Justice league of America, and shared in many of the teams early adventures.

(Action Comics #650 (fb)) - Black Canary and the Justice League fought the Weapons Master, who cast an illusion making them think they'd been sent to another planet and were being confronted by monsters, when in actuality the "monsters" were their teammates. They fought, but Superman arrived to destroy Weapons Masters' illusion casting device and send him back to the future.

(Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant #1) - Black Canary and the JLofA were imprisoned by Professor Ivo, who transferred their powers into his android Amazo. Green Lantern escaped his prison and single-handedly freed the JLofA and defeated Ivo and Amazo.

(JLA #117 (fb)) - Black Canary and the JLA battled Despero, who’d conquered his home dimension of Kalanor.

(Flash II #219 (fb)) - Black Canary and the JlofA defeated the evil sorcerers Saturna, Troll King and Simon Magnus.

(JLA #9 (fb)) - Black Canary and the JLA fought the Key.

(Justice League of America I #117) - Hawkman applied for readmission into the JlofA, and Black Canary and the other Leaguers unanimously voted yes. 

(Justice League of America I #118, 119) - Dr. Hubble sent out signals to outer space from his observatory in Central City. His continued failures led him to switch off the machine, but his last message was garbled and received by an alien from Arcturus. He concluded from the scrambled message that Earth was being overrun with superhumans, and sent his Adaptoids to destroy Earth’s superheroes. The Adaptoids arrived in Central City, where they were confronted by the Flash. Hawkman was observing from the JlofA satellite, and his separation from Thanagar and Hawkwoman made him need a new League adventure, so he hit the JlofA emergency signal. Black Canary and the League responded, and after adapting to an Earth environment the creatures attacked the League and adapted to counter all of their powers before returning to their spaceship. Their master sent out a broadcast to the JlofA, telling them they could either abandon Earth, or face three groups of Adaptoids stationed in Hong Kong, San Francisco and Venice. The heroes saw the Adaptoids as a threat, and confronted them, but left Hawkman behind, feeling his grief for his loss of Thanagar would make him a liability. The battle went against them, and after being infected by the Adapotoids they retreated back to the JlofA satellite. Hawkman left a note saying he’d returned to Thanagar, and they were all steamed at his selfishness. The Adaptoids decided that the entire human race was viral, spreading too fast and destroying the planet Earth. They were no longer satisfied with forcing superheroes to leave Earth, they promised to exterminate the human race to save the planet, and broadcast their intentions on a TV transmission. Batman, Atom, Elongated Man and Green Arrow tried to defeat hem, but were bested and teleported back to the JlofA satellite alongside their fellow beaten Leaguers. The Adaptoids started toppling world governments when Hawkman returned from Thanagar, along with Hawkgirl, and teleported the Adaptoids to their satellite. The League questioned his motivations, but his plan soon became clear. Hawkgirl’s Equalizer Disease that made everyone around her equal gave the JlofA the edge over the aliens, enabling them to defeat the Adaptoids and imprison them on an abandoned planet halfway between Earth and Thanagar. Thwe Adaptoids settled into their new home, building cities and prospering, while Hawkman and Hawkgirl vowed to monitor them.

(Justice League of America I #120, 121) - Black Canary and the JlofA foiled a mad scientist on New Guinea who tried to wipe out the southern hemisphere with an aqua-bomb. On Guinea Flash discovered a cave painting of Adam Strange, and  the team was then transported to Adam’s adopted home of Rann by a zeta-beam. The League helped Adam disable a giant remote-controlled ray-gun, and after introductions were made Adam told them how his wife-to-be had seemingly been vaporized by a flying lens. The League realized the gun and lens were both more powerful recreations of past threats Adam had faced. Just then Sardath appeared, and informed the League that someone had summoned them with his new Zeta-Plus Beams, which could be connected with Earth instantly, instead of taking years of advance planning.  Two more threats from Rann’s past attacked, the giant Kalulla bird, and the robot Borg. Borg apparently disintegrated the League, and Adam used the Zeta-Plus Beam to return to Earth and gather the rest of the League to avenge their comrades and deal with the mastermind behind the attacks. Kanjar Ro, the villain responsible, looked on in glee. He’d orchestrated everything so he could destroy the league for having defeated him in the past. Before the League could form a plan of action they were alerted to a freak electric storm in Long Island, and left their satellite to respond, with Adam staying behind because Earth’s surface was poisonous to him. The storm turned out to be a Cloud Creature, another revamped threat from Rann, and it defeated the League. Kanjar confronted Adam Strange and explained his schemes, but Adam responded by stealing the energi-rod he’d used to recreate the Rannian menaces and zeta-beamed back to Rann. Sardath used the brain waves on file from Kanjar Ro’s time as a prisoner on Rann to allow Adam control over the energi-rod. Adam correctly reasoned that Kanjar’s ego demanded that he destroy the entire JlofA in one fell swoop, so the seemingly murdered Leaguers must have been in captivity on Rann. In an ice cave he found the five black spheres that Kanjar had turned the League into, and undid the transformation with the energi-rod. He found an additional black sphere, and it turned out to be Alanna. She told Adam that Kanjar kept her alive as insurance to have leverage against Adam if his plan failed. The JlofA returned to Earth and defeated the Cloud Creature. Without his energi-rod Kanjar was easy pickings, and Black Canary knocked him out with a karate chop. The League went to Rann with Adam and attended his wedding to Alanna.

(Joker #4) - Joker stole a bus and traveled to Star City, where he met Dinah Lance. He fell for her and determined to have her or kill her. He kidnapped Dinah and bragged about stealing the giant star over the bridge leading to Star City. Green Arrow tried to stop him, but Joker escaped using his laughing gas. Unbeknownst to anyone Joker replaced the star with a counterfeit one filled with laughing death radiation. Joker hoped it would kill enough people to block up the bridge and keep the police from interfering when he went after porcelain clown figures in a museum. Green Arrow again confronted him, and Joker threw Dinah from the bridge, but Arrow saved her. In the tussle Joker fell from the bridge into the waters below.

(Justice League of America I #127) - The Anarchist kidnapped several world leaders in the name of bringing chaos to the world’s governments, and challenged the JlofA to stop him from kidnapping a group oif U.N. delegates. Superman, Green Arrow, Flash and Red Tornado responded, but the Anarchist and his cronies fought them to a standstill and snatched the delegates, leaving the U.N. furious with the Justice League. Clark Kent covered a performance by Simon Elis, faith-healer, and was convinced that he was the Anarchist. The JlofA followed Elias, but he foiled them with a burst of energy, and managed to teleport away with League members Batman, Black Canary and Elongated Man. Green Lantern told Superman that someone was mind-controlling him, forcing him to recharge his power ring and siphoning off the energy, and they deduced that the Anarchist was the culprit. The next time the Anarchist tried to make GL recharge, GL convinced Superman to knock him out with a punch. The JlofA tracked down the Anarchist, and he revealed that he was using Green Lantern’s powers and creating chaos so that he could restore the world order as Simon Elis and become a dictator. Without GL’s power to draw off, the Anarchist and his cronies were easy pickings for the League.

(Identity Crisis #3 (fb)) - The Secret Society switched bodies with the JLA. They took time to document the JLA’s secret identities. After being defeated Black Canary and the JLA erased their memories with Zatanna’s help.

(Identity Crisis #2, 6 (fb)) - Black Canary and the JLA defeated Hector Hammond, and then received a distress call from Sue Dibny from the JLA satellite. They found Sue being savaged by Dr. Light and quickly defeated him. Elongated Man took Sue to the hospital, but Light threatened the rest of the JLA, telling them he’d find their loved ones and do to them what he did to Sue. Hawkman proposed that they mindwipe Dr. Light and make him less of the threat, but Canary sided against him. After the deciding vote was cast Zatanna used her magic to erase Light’s memory, but in trying to alter her personality she magically lobotomized him, making him a minimal threat. Batman saw what they were doing and tried to stop them, so they decided to erase his memory of what they did to Light.

(Catwoman III #50 (fb)) - The Justice League of America went behind Batman's back, and kidnapped Catwoman, who was quite close to him even though she was a criminal. Zatanna, reluctantly taking orders from Hawkman, planted a seed in Catwoman's mind to turn her from villain to hero.

(DC Comics Presents #7) - Black Canary was on JLA monitor duty when the Qwardian Q-Field hit Earth, paralyzing every living being. They were repelled by red Tornado, who’s inorganic nature made him immune to the field.

(DC Comics Presents #30) - Black Canary contacted Superman, and came to the Fortress of Solitude, telling him she was having nightmares about her dead husband Larry Lance that were driving her mad. He seemed like he was warning her of something, and she wondered if perhaps he’d survived the JLofA’s encounter with Aquarius and had been teleported to a dream dimension. The League had already turned down an investigation, and Superman was skeptical, but promised to use his super-science to help her. His science equipment detected the Dream Dimension, and he theorized that Canary was homing in on it as a side effect of her Canary Cry. He constructed a receiver so they could enter the dimension to look for her husband, but the power required to keep the dimensional gateway open would only last for ten minutes. He knew they could be trapped there forever, but chose not to inform Canary because she already had enough on her mind. They encountered mythological beasts and a medival castle before meeting Larry, but Black Canary realized he was nothing more than a p[rojection of her subconscious. They met Dr. Destiny, who’d learned to control the Dream Dimension, and used his dreams to attack them. The Canary Cry that tuned Black Canary into the dimension allowed her to defeat Destiny’s horde and rip apart his dream world. The heroes returned to Earth, and although Canary was heartbroken she still felt Larry was in a better place watching over her.

Canary fell in love with her teammate Green Arrow, and the couple moved to Seattle to start a new life together. While investigating a drug ring Canary was kidnapped and brutalized. Due to the attack she lost her sonic powers and she would never be able to bear children. The experience hardened her, but she returned to crimefighting with renewed motivation.

(Flash II #215, 216 (fb)) - Flash came to Canary and the JLA and asked Zatanna to brainwash Top, one of his most dangerous foes, and make him into a hero. The League debated the morality of once again having Zatanna alter someone’s mind, but Zatanna agreed to help Flash because she thought it would be to Top’s benefit to be reformed.

(Green Lantern III #46) - Carol Ferris told Canary about her recent trouble with Crosswinds, and Canary asked Green Arrow to look into it as a favor for her. Canary was distressed when Arrow vanished after he started his investigation.

(Green Lantern III #63) - Canary was checking herself out in a mirror when Ganthet teleported into her home and told her he needed aid battling Parallax. When she told him she'd lost her powers he decided he didn't need her help.

(Green Arrow III #16 (fb)) - Black Canary attended Oliver Queen's funeral in her civilian identity.

(Final Night #2-4) - The Sun-Eater attacked the sun, chilling Earth, and Canary and a number of heroes met at S.T.A.R. Labs to figure out how to defeat it. Canary dealt with a mob in Metropolis that was trying to kill Dusk, the alien that warned Earth about the Sun-Eater, blaming her for the Sun-Eater's attack. At S.T.A.R. Canary and the heroes learned that the Eater would cause the sun to go hyper-nova in under 24 hours. Earth was saved when Parallax sacrificed his life to dispel the Sun-Eater and reignite the sun.

(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Canary was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan. She spoke at the service telling the heroes about the good times she had with Hal when he teamed with Green Arrow.

(JLA #39-41) - Canary was among the legion of heroes summoned by the JLA to quell worldwide outbreaks of warfare that were incited by Mageddon.

(JSA #2) - Canary and the newly reformed JSA found out why Scarab needed their help. A new Dr. Fate was about to be born, and Mordu was trying to locate and kill the Fate-Child. The JSA were charged with finding the child before Mordu. Canary traveled to Venice with Starman VII and Flash I. They encountered and defeated the Sons of Anubis, but did not find the Fate-Child in Venice.

(JSA #3, 4) - Mordu abducted the Fate-Child and defeated the JSA, but the battle lasted long enough for the Fate-Child to transform into Dr. Fate and trap Mordu inside his amulet. The JSA returned to their hq and named Sand their first chairman.

(JSA #10) - Canary returned to JSA Headquarters and found it trashed. Her teammate Wildcat explained that he had a rowdy brawl with the Injustice Society while the JSA was away.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1) - At Star-Spangled Kid’s insistence Black Canary and the JSA attended Young Justice’s Justice for All rally in Washington, as did Old Justice, the Titans and JLA. It was interrupted by Klarion, who magically de-aged Canary and most of the heroes into children. Doiby Dickles pulled out an extraterrestrial aging gun to return the heroes to their proper age, but another of Klarion’s spells intercepted his shot. The result was that the younger heroes present were aged to adulthood, but the other heroes remained children.

(Sins of Youth Secret Files #1, Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. #1) - The de-aged Canary and JSA had a dispute with the de-aged JLA that resulted in them brawling for hours. Once they made up the JSA and Doiby Dickles went aboard the Steel Eagle so they could travel to Myrg so Doiby could find another aging gun to reverse Klarion's spell.

(Sins of Youth: Starwoman and the JSA (Junior Society) #1) - Canary, Doiby and the JSA battled Prince Marieb on Myrg, retrieved an aging gun, and returned to Earth.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2) - Doiby tried using his new raygun on Canary and the other heroes affected by Klarion’s spell but it had no effect. Since the heroes’ ages were skewed by a combination of magic and science, they would need Klarion’s cooperation to undo the transformation. The heroes attacked Agenda’s headquarters in Alaska, where Superboy, Superman, Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman were being held hostage. The hq was defended by the Junior Injustice Society, but the heroes prevailed, forced the Agenda to flee, and freed the prisoners. They then forced Klarion to team with Doiby and return everyone to their proper age.

(Martian Manhunter II #18, 19) - Black Canary and the JSA invited Martian Manhunter to their hq for a training session. Manhunter easily dispatched the new JSAers, and after their combat Kanto and a squad of Parademons attacked JSA hq. Kanto exposed Star-Spangled Kid to the living death, stealing her soul and leaving her body in a coma, and took the soul back to Apokolips. Martian Manhunter and the JSA went to Apokolips to reclaim the Kid’s soul, and allowed themselves to be captured by the Parademons while Manhunter found Kanto, bested him in combat and learned that Darkseid was using the Kid’s soul in the D.E.M., a technoorganic device that bonded with the Source Wall an used her soul to relay information back to him about the Source. Manhunter freed the JSA and Dr. Fate linked his soul with the Kid, allowing him to pull her from the Source and reunite her with her body.

(JSA #11, 12) - Director Bones of the D.E.O. briefed Black Canary and the JSA about the recent terrorist activities of Kobra, who had kidnapped Maser and was threatening to incinerate every capital city in the world. At the same time Hourman III sensed that Extant was adversely manipulating the time-stream. The JSA decided to split into two teams, one to attack Kobra’s Blackhawk Island headquarters, and one to search the time-stream for Extant. Canary was on the team that went to Blackhawk Island, and after freeing Maser they brought Kobra into custody. Metron crashed-landed Hourman II’s timeship into the roof of JSA HQ and told the team that their timeline would cease to exist if they didn’t immediately follow him into the time-stream.

(JSA #13-15) - Aboard Hourman III’s timeship Metron explained to Black Canary and the JSA that Extant used stole Metron’s Moebius Chair to travel to the end of creation and create a new universe of his own making. Unless the JSA stopped him, Extant’s new universe would go backwards through time and erase the current universe. In Extant’s timeline, Canary and the JSA had a skirmish with Extant’s troops, then they stormed Extant’s castle, where they discovered the recently resurrected Dove II. Dove gave her life to distract Extant, and the JSA used the opportunity to rip the worlogog that was powering Extant’s timeline away from the villain. Extat’s timeline vanished and the JSA returned to their own time. Extant escaped back into the timestream, but Atom Smasher followed him. When Atom Smasher returned he told the JSA they wouldn’t have to worry about Extant any more, but refused to give any more details. Canary and her teammates visited a memorial to Atom I, Hourman I and Dr. Mid-Nite I to honor the fact that their killer had finally been brought to justice.

(JSA #21) - Canary and Dr. Mid-Nite went on a date at Coney Island and discussed where their relationship was going.

(Green Arrow III #1) - Oracle put Black Canary on the trail of a pimp and drug-runner who was working with the Russian mafia. Canary caught him in the middle of a domestic disturbance, and convinced his wife to turn state's evidence on him. Canary found herself thinking of Green Arrow and their times together, both the arguments and passion that followed.

(JSA Secret Files #2) - Nemesis II recruited Black Canary ad Wildcat to help her battle the Council. They raided a Council cloning factory in Villich, Austria and shut it down. They discovered the body of the Council’s latest ally Ultra-Humanite, but were shocked when they realized his brain was missing, meaning the Humanite had found a new body to inhabit.

(Green Arrow III #4-6, 8, 9) - Canary took down a Yakuza operation in Gotham and wasstunned when Oracle informed her Green Arrow was back from the dead. Canary and Arsenal traveled to the home of Green Arrow in Star City, where they met his youthful aide Mia Dearden. They found Green Arrow and had a wonderful reunion, but learned that he couldn't remember the last ten years of his life before his death. They joined Batman in taking Arrow to the safe house of Jason Blood, who promised to find out how Arrow returned from the dead. Canary initially rekindled her romance with Arrow, but remembered all the hurt he'd done her over the years, and even if he couldn't remember doing it she couldn't forgive him. Blood summoned Abortives, demons from Hell that needed a hollow, a man without a soul, to walk the Earth, and noted that they wanted to get at Arrow. Determining that Arrow was a hollow and a danger as long as he lived because he could be easily possessed, Blood changed into the Demon and shot hellfire at Arrow. Spectre saved Arrow, and took him away to the afterlife to meet his soul. He sent Deadman to possess and neutralize the Demon, and Deadman told the heroes how Spectre resurrected Green Arrow. Demon changed into Jason Blood and when he learned Arrow was staying with occultist Stanley Dover he told them they had to take down Dover. Dover's house was protected with a blood seal, forbidding anyone not blood related to the residence from entering, but fortunately Arrow's son Conner Hawke arrived to save his father from Dover.

(JSA #25) - Canary and the JSA welcomed the recently resurrected Hawkman I aboard as their newest member.

(JSA: Our Worlds at War #1) - During the Imperiex War Canary, the JSA and the JSA reserves were given a mission by President Luthor to disrupt Imperiex’s link to his ship’s power supply. The JSA not only cut off Imperiex from his power, but they managed to blow up his ship as well.

(JSA #31) - Canary and the JSA investigated the death of supervillain Shakedown. Batman joined them, letting them know Shakedown and his partner New Wave had kidnapped Jessica Weintraub, the infant daughter of a recently bankrupt Gotham computer whiz. When the villains realized they weren’t going to get paid their ransom they turned on each other. Batman and the JSA saved Jessica and captured New Wave. Black Canary broke off her relationship with Dr. Mid-Nite, telling him an old flame had reentered her life. She also decided she needed time off from the JSA, so she took a leave of absence and named Power Girlas her replacement on the team.

(JSA #32) - Canary gave Power Girl her impressions of her JSA teammates, then said her goodbyes.

(Green Arrow III #12, 13) - Canary and Arrow went on a date, but he told him they weren’t going to date again, especially since she was still involved with Dr. Mid-Nite. Riddler robbed the restaurant they were eating at, and they took him down. They experience excited them, and they spent the night together at JSA hq. She woke from a sound night's sleep when Hawkman and Green Arrow started brawling. Hawkman didn't want Arrow dating Canary because he thought Arrow was bad for her, but Canary didn't like having them fight over her and ended their argument with a sonic scream. She made it clear this escapade had cooled her feelings for Arrow.

(JSA #37) - Canary was among the crowd of heroes that attended Johnny Thunder’s funeral.

(Green Arrow III #14, 15) - Canary busted up a prostitution ring when Oracle informed her that Conner Hawke had been shot. She went to Star City to be by his side, but the shooter, Onomatopoeia, went to the hospital to finish the job. He took out Canary, but was stopped in his tracks by Green Arrow.

(JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice) - Martian Manhunter called in Black Canary as a JLA reservist after the JLA and JSA’s ranks had been decimated when the Seven Deadly Sins possessed several members of the teams. Canary, alongside other JLA reservists and the unpossessed members of the JLA and JSA helped Shazam re-chain Deadly Sins in the Rock of Eternity, and then defeated the Sins’ masters, Johnny Sorrow and Despero.

(Green Arrow III #17, 21) - Green Arrow called Oracle from Black Canary's earring/comm device, so Oracle asked her how her reunion with Arrow was going. She told her it was going well, but Arrow's jovial facade worried her because she knew him long enough to know it meant he was upset. Arrow took Black Canary to dinner and was prepared to propose, but she hinted he shouldn't make big life decisions so soon after his resurrection, so he didn't pop the question.

(Green Arrow III #25, Green Lantern III #164) -A war erupted between the Black Circle Syndicateand the mafia they'd treated so shabbily, with Connor Hawke and Black Canary containing the damage.

(JSA #49-51) - Black Canary returned to JSA duty to battle Kobra cultists who were launching terrorists attacks against Philadelphia after the Princes of Darkness pulled the moon from its’ orbit and Kobra declared the event signaled the impending end of the world. Canary and the JSA defeated the cultists, and Sand undid the damage to displaced moon did to the Earth. Black Canary aided the JSA in defeating Mordru.

(Green Arrow III #29) - Canary called Arrow from Seattle when she heard the assassin Drakon drove arrows through his hands. She wanted to come see him, but he insisted he was okay. Canary was unaware Arrow didn't want to see her because he was carrying on an affair with Joanna Pierce.

(JSA #54) - Black Canary, the JLA and JSA celebrated Thanksgiving at JSA hq. Canary tried to talk to her ex-boyfriend Dr. Mid-Nite, who was avoiding her. She only irritated him by telling him there was never much to their relationship. Kulak and the Warlord of Ys ruined the Thanksgiving meal, but were quickly defeated by the heroes. The JLA and JSA settled for ordering out, and had pizza for Thanksgiving.

(Green Arrow III #34) - Canary saw Green Arrow taking his frustrations out on a group of muggers. She thought Connor and Mia's hospitalization at the hands of Drakon was the cause of his stress, and it partially was, but he'd also cheated on her with Joanna Pierce shortly before Pierce died. They spent the night together, and Canary sensed Arrow was keeping something from her, but she didn't press it.

(Flash II #208, 209) - Canary and the JLA summoned Flash to the JLA Watchtower, demanding to know why they no longer remembered his secret identity. He initially refused to talk to team, and ran away, but after Superman talked to him he returned. He revealed that the Spectre erased the world’s knowledge of his secret identity to protect his family, but he was ready to reveal himself as Wally West to his friends.

(Identity Crisis #1-3, Flash II #214) - Canary was among the heroes that attended Sue Dibny’s funeral. Afterwards Canary, Zatanna, Atom, Hawkman, Green Arrow, and Elongate Man, the surviving Satellite Era JLA, met in a private chapel. They believed Sue’s murderer was Dr. Light, the man who savaged Sue years before, the man they mind-wiped. Flash and Green Lantern noticed they’d stayed behind and overheard their conversation, so they confessed what they did to Dr. Light. They confronted Dr. Light, but he was prepared for them, he’d hired Deathstroke as a bodyguard. They fought, and Dr. Light’s memories of what the JLA did to him returned. He unleashed his powers on the heroes, striking them unconscious, and fled. While Canary and the JLA recovered from their fight against Deathstroke Flash visited the JLA Watchtower and realized the JLA questioned him about the Spectre erasing his identity from their minds because they feared someone did to them what they did to Light. Superman wanted to know why they were pursuing Light, and Flash told him Elongated Man had a run-in with him years back, but didn’t give details.

(Identity Crisis #4) - Canary and Green Arrow investigated an attack on Jean Loring.

(Green Arrow III #40) - Black Canary confronted Arrow about making Mia a killer, forcing her into a situation where she had to take Mr. Davis’ life, and he admitted he screwed up, and agreed with her when she told him they should break up. She slugged him and told him one of their major problems was that he was never willing to fight to save their relationship.

(Identity Crisis #7) - Canary and Zatanna were disturbed to learn that Jean Loring had killed Sue Dibny and Atom had disappeared.

(JLA #112-114) - Black Canary and the JSA were called in by the JLA when Qwardians threatened to destroy Earth with their doomsday weapon Erdammeru while the Crime Syndicate of Amerika tried to take control of Earth. Black Canary and a team of JLAers went to the Syndicate’s Earth in the anti-matter universe to shake things up. Diataria Lysis was afraid of Qwardian leader Roval’s insatiable bloodlust, and brokered peace between Qward and Earth. The JLA informed the Qwardians that Krona was responsible for Qward’s destruction, and had been defeated by the JLA. The Qwardians returned to the anti-matter universe, but vowed to destroy the Crime Syndicate’s Earth for having dared try to invade their planet. Batman had planned for this to happen, and set his team on the anti-matter Earth into motion. The rest of the JLA entered the anti-matter universe, and forced the Syndicate to ask them for a favor, help in defeating the Qwardians. This was broadcast to the populace of anti-matter Earth, and once the Qwardians were defeated, the people saw that the Syndicate was not invincible and began to rise up against them.

(Birds of Prey #80) -

(DC Countdown #1) - When someone broke into a Kord warehouse and stole the kryptonite stored there Oracle sent Black Canary and a number of heroes to investigate the crime scene as a favor to Blue Beetle. The investigated turned up nothing, and Black Canary apologized to the other heroes for wasting their time.

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(JLA #115-119) - Flash called Canary and the JLA to the Watchtower and told them that if they didn’t confess to Batman that they altered his memory he would tell him. The JLA was divided on what to do, but they were interrupted by distress signals from Happy Harbor and Opal City. Former members of the Secret Society of Super-Villains had their memory restored by Despero, and were seeking vengeance on the JLA for tampering with their minds. The picked off Red Tornado in Happy Harbor and Ralph Dibny in Opal City, and then defeated the JLAers that responded to their distress signals. They villains then turned their attention to Batman, presenting him with the unconscious bodies of the JLA. The JLA revived, and the villains chose to retreat. The JLA confessed to Batman, but he already knew they’d manipulated his mind. He was in a rage and decked Hawkman, who was very much behind all the JLA’s actions. The JLA presumed that the former Society members who had their minds intact remembered their secret identities, and went to look in on their loved ones. The former Society members made an attack on the Daily Planet, trying to kill Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White. They planned to take out all the JLA’s loved ones. The JLA defeated them, and Superman revealed that Batman told him that the JLA mindwiped him. This treatment of Batman tempted Superman to quit the team, but first the JLA had to decide what to do with the villains who knew their identities. Hawkman was adamant about mindwiping them again, and called for a vote, but it was a draw. Zatanna told the team her past actions were an abuse of magic, and she refused to mindwipe anyone ever again. She told the JLA to take her off reserve status and disappeared. The JLA took the villains to the Watchtower to get a tie-breaking vote from Martian Manhunter, and see if he would mindwipe the villains, but Manhunter was gone and there was evidence of a struggle. Despero had confronted Manhunter and subjugated his mind. The JLA tracked Despero to the Batcave, where he’d already encountered Batman and taken his mind. Despero picked the JLA off one by one, and had them fight each other. Zatanna had a change of heart, and after putting Despero in suspended animation she mindwiped the Society members again. The JLA agreed that they were a shadow of their former greatness and disbanded.

(Batgirl I #67) - Batgirl reluctantly contacted Oracle and the Birds of Prey, who picked her up on Aerie One. Oracle promised to dig up whatever intel she could on Lady Siva’s whereabouts. Black Canary took Batgril aside, saying she had a surprise for her and asked her to spar. Batgirl was shocked when Canary started using some of Lady Shiva’s moves and started choking her. Canary didn’t realize Batgirl was on Shiva’s trail and confided in her that she’d learned some of Shiva’s moves because they’d been in contact through letters. Shiva was offering to train and mentor Canary, but for now she was keeping it a secret from the other Birds of Prey. Oracle was keeping tabs on Nyssa Raatko, who was taking over what remained of Ra’s al Ghul’s criminal empire and still had connections with the League of Assassins. Batgirl speculated that Nyssa might recruit Shiva to be the League’s new Sensei and Lady Blackhawk flew her to Nyssa’s strong hold in the Balkans. Oracle made an effort to reconcile with Batgirl, saying she was incredibly special to her. Batgirl was amenable, and even listened when Oracle insisted she put effort in learning to read and write if she ever wanted to take over for Batman. Oracle did a brain scan and realized Batgirl’s language centers were spread all over both hemispheres of her brain, and that traditional ways of learning to read and write wouldn’t work well for her, so they’d come up with something else. Before they could continue the conversation Aerie One arrived in the Balkans, and Batgirl promised Oracle she wouldn’t be a stranger.

(JLA #120) - Aquaman invited Canary and other JLAers to Happy Harbor, where the League began, to finalize the team's dissolution. Aquaman hoped that the disagreements and lack of trust that led to the dissolution wouldn't last forever, and reminded them what the JLA once stood for. Everyone tossed dust into the wind as an act of cleansing and left.

(JLA #121-125) - Aquaman proposed forming a covert League with Green Arrow, Black Canary, Manitou Dawn and John Stewart. He worried about Batman splitting from the JLA, and his comments that the concentration of power in the League was too dangerous to exist. Green Arrow confessed to Canary that he’d had an affair with Dawn shortly before the death of her husband Manitou Raven. Canary told him she used to find his roguish nature charming, but it’d lost its appeal. She decided to have girl talk with Dawn and learned she’d met Manitou in the astral plane. He warned her of the Key’s new power and bad intentions for the JLA, and prophesized that she would kill Green Arrow. The temporary JLA investigated a rampage killing in Metropolis perpetrated by the Key, and they tried to coerce Supergirl and Red Tornado into joining up with them. After Black Canary’s talk with Dawn she shared some of Batman’s reservations about the JLA as she saw the team look out for their own interests and not the individuals involved. They were interrupted by an attack by O.M.A.C. units, bent on destroying all superhumans. When the O.M.A.C.s were overwhelmed Brother Eye sent them a command to destroy themselves. During the battle Key spirited away Dawn. Green Arrow watched his new JLA crumble before his eyes as Red Tornado and Supergirl went into space with Troia to fight in the Infinite Crisis, and Aquaman had to return to Atlantis to tend to Mera. Only Arrow and Canary were left to save Dawn. They tracked the Key to the Metropolis sewer system, but a Keyman held them off long enough for Key to flee with Dawn to Gotham. Manitou Raven’s spirit appeared and opened a mystic portal so Arrow and Canary could pursue the Key. Batman joined them in fighting the Key, but the villain’s activities had attracted Envy of the Seven Deadly Sins, who boosted his powers, letting him enter and attack the minds of thousands. Envy turned Green Arrow against Batman and they fought. Envy planned to keep Key from destroying humanity, but also wanted to use him as a conduit to the human consciousness so he could enjoy the seamy thoughts of others and turn brother against brother. Key didn’t like being a puppet and absorbed thousands of minds and forced their thoughts into Envy’s mind. This overloaded Envy, and he broke away from the Key and retreated. Batman wanted to take the Key back to Arkham, but he begged Manitou Dawn to save him. She knew his madness and powers would only grow in Arkham, so she sent him to the astral plane. Insulated from the material world and no longer afflicted by voiced the Key found peace within himself. Arrow reminded Batman that they couldn’t have saved the day without each other, but Batman reiterated that the League was dead and would stay that way.

(Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special #1) - When the Society broke out virtually every incarcerated supervillain around the world Oracle sent Black Canary and every available hero in Gotham to quell the breakout at Arkham. She then joined a losing battle to return escaped Blackgate prisoners to their cells. The Society massed in Metropolis, and Canary and an army of virtually every hero on Earth confronted the villains and engaged in an epic battle with them.

(52 / WWIII Part Four: United We Stand #1) - <Week 50, Day 7> Black Adam arrived in China, and prepared to destroy the entire country. He defeated China's superhero team the Great Ten before China allowed Black Canary and the American superhero community to square off against him. Black Adam was a god with nothing left to lose, and each punch he threw was intended to kill. His savagery was winning the day until Martian Manhunter reappeared and flooded his brain with his own loss, the death of the entire Martian species. Black Adam was distracted long enough for Captain Marvel to hurl a Shazam bolt at him. Theo Adam was powerless, and left with amnesia. He staggered away unnoticed from the end of WWIII.

(Justice League of America II #1-6) - Black Canary contacted Arsenal and Green Lantern, alerting them to the fact that Red Tornado's android body had been stolen. They traced Red Tornado's energy signature to the Rocky Mountains, and confronted Professor Ivo, who was Red Tornado apart. He unleashed a number of Tornado robots on the heroes, and fled to a sublevel to continue assembling a super armor from Tornado's body for his boss Solomon Grundy. The heros showed their excellent teamwork in dismantling the army of Tornado robots.They confronted Ivo again, but he'd finished his work, transforming Tornado into a new Amazo which would serve as an immortal body for Grudy. The heroes were joined by the new Justice League of America in battling the villains. Grundy allowed Amazo to fly off, and told the heroes they needed his help to beat Amazo, and proposed that after helping them defeat the android they should fight over who got possession of him. Amazo still retained vestiges of Red Tornado's memories, and going on pure instinct he went to the house of Tornado's wife Kathy and his daughter Traya. He frightened them, and the heroes caught up to him and attacked. Amazo used his Parasite powers to drain the League of their powers, but they still managed to rupture the control rods that kept his powers in check. His body self-destructed, and after destroying Grundy the League stripped out the Amazo software and returned Red Tornado to his proper body.

(Justice League of America II #7) - Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman decided to form their new Justice League of America from Black Canary and the other heroes present during their battle with Solomon Grundy. They built a Hall of Justice in Washington, D.C. on the former site of JSA hq. The Hall also had a teleport to the new JLA Satellite. The new members all accepted their invitations, and the group took a team photo

(Green Lantern IV #15-17) - Black Canary and the Justice League traveled to Russia to bring Green Lantern Hal Jordan back to America. Hal had violated the Freedom of Powers Act, which forbid superheroes from operating outside American soil, so they told Hal he was coming with them for his own good. Alan Scott was also present, and demanded an explanation, so Hal told him that his friend Cowgirl had been captured by Chechnyan terrorists. The League held off the Rocket Red Brigade, who wanted to arrest Hal, while Hal finished his rescue mission. Alan Scott used his Checkmate connections to clear Hal, but Russia demanded a formal apology from the League to the Rocket Red Brigade.

(Green Arrow III #73-75) - Brick assembled a team of metahuman lieutenants so he could regain control of the Star City underworld, and Green Arrow, Connor and Speedy went to confront them. Black Canary arrived in Star to lend a hand. They captured everyone except Brick and his new right-hand man Merlyn. Arrow and Canary argued about whose fault it was that Brick got away, but their anger turned to passion and they spent the night together. Canary was impressed by the way Green Arrow remade himself, saving Star with politics instead of arrows, and funding the Outsiders so Arsenal could quit the team and join the Justice league of America. Arrow told her that Roy taking the mantle of Red Arrow made him more proud than anything else in life, and revealed that he’d been abstinent for a year waiting for her to find him again when he’d become a better man. The heroes got video footage of Brick entering a warehouse, but when they pursued it they found it was a ruse; Drakon and Deathstroke ambushed them in hopes of eliminating them. The villains had them dead to rights, but the Justice League of America arrived and saved the day, even though Drakon and Deathstroke were able to escape. Mayor Queen resigned, eliminating the need for a recall election, and making his right-hand man Frederick Tuckman, who convinced Nudocerda to make him head of city council, the new mayor. As a farewell gesture of unity Queen and Connor and Speedy shoot chemical arrows at the wall that separated the Glades from the rest of Star, bringing them to the ground. . Later, Ollie changed to Green Arrow and proposed to Black Canary.

(Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1) - Green Lantern was investigating the newly formed Sinestro Corps, and recruited Canary and the JlofA to help him track down leads. They confronted Zoom, a former Society teammate of Sinestro, but he had no information for them and managed to flee. Green Lantern admitted that there was little evidence of the Corps presence on Earth at the present.

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Cyborg-Superman #1) - The Sinestro Corps planned their invasion of Earth, and intended to take out the JlofA. Cyborg-Superman and his Manhunters disabled the JlofA satellite’s defense systems, rendering the satellite inoperable, and the Sinestro Corps battered Black Canary and the League, allowing their Warworld to enter Earth’s orbit.

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1) - An army of Earth’s heroes, including Black Canary and the Justice League appeared to take Superboy down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn’t at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he’d be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy’s death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible for boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime. 

(Green Lantern IV #25) - The Sinestro Corps War raged on Earth, and while Black Canary and an army of superheroes battled the Corps the Anti-Monitor prepared to unleash an anti-matter wave to destroy Earth. With Earth’s destruction, the entire 52 would fall, and he would once again rule all that was. The GLC ruptured the heart of Anti-Monitor’s Warworld, the Sinestro Corps central power battery, and created a shield around Warworld and the Monitor. The ensuing blast nearly destroyed the Anti-Monitor, and he was finished off by Superman-Prime, who betrayed him for having destroyed his home, Earth-Prime. GL Hal Jordan defeated Sinestro in personal combat, and the Sinestro Corps, lacking any leadership, fled Earth. The heroes rejoiced and began rebuilding the damage the Sinestro Corps did.

(Titans II #9, 10) - Jericho possessed Green Lantern Hal Jordan and tried to kill the candidates for president, but the Justice League foiled him. Jericho fled to Titans headquarters, possessing Nightwing, but the League was right behind him, and demanded that the Titans release the villain into their custody. Jericho panicked and jumped into Flash’s body and vibrated out of Titan headquarters, but he couldn’t evade the Justice League. The Titans joined the League in battling Jericho as he lept from body to body, until he ended up in Superman. Previously he would never have been able to enter Superman’s mind, but his power had grown immensely. He still wasn’t strong enough to take control of Superman, who expelled his astral form from his mind. Jericho’s astral form dissipated into the wind.

(Titans II #21) - Troia visited Roy in the hospital with Black Canary, and realized Roy would never be the care-free boy who showed her that feeling was okay after he recovered. Black Canary had been by Roy's side the entire day, and Troia convinced her to go home and get some sleep.

Comments: Created by Denny O'Neil & Dick Dillin

In the pre-Crisis DCU Dinah Laurel Lance lived on Earth-2, and in this continuity she was cursed since birth with a sonic scream by the Wizard, forcing her mother to ask her friend Johnny Thunder to send the baby to the Thunderbolt's dimension. When Black Canary contracted cancer from Aquarius Johnny's Thunderbolt put her mind in her fully grown daughter's body to save her life, but erased from her memory the fact that she was now her own daughter. This Canary moved to Earth-2 and joined the JLA.

Black Canary II received profiles in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #2, Who's Who in the DC Universe #9 and JSA Secret Files #1. Black Canary received a profile in Silver Age Secret Files #1 under the Justice League of America entry. Canary received profiles in JLA-Z #2 under the JLA (Year One), JLA (“The Satellite” Era) and JLA (“The International” Era) entries. Black Canary (as Cry Baby) received a profile in Sins of Youth Secret Files #1 under the Junior Society of America entry.

There was a pin-up of Black Canary in Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery #1.

Aquaman Secret Files #1 recounted Aquaman's history from the Atlantis Chronicles, and featured Black Canary.

Green Lantern III #55 showed a picture of Black Canary when Green Lantern Alan Scott told the history of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps.

In Bizarro Comics #1 Mr. Mxyzptlk beamed information about all of Earth’s superheroes into Bizarro-Superman’s mind, hoping to teach him how to be a proper hero. Afterwards Bizarro had images of various heroes, including Black Canary, wandering through his head.

Black Canary was pictured on the cover of JSA #28. She ha a cameo in JSA #75.

A statue of Black Canary II was seen in the JSA Museum in JSA #60.

Black Canary had cameos in Action Comics #554, Batgirl I #62, 69, DC Comics Presents #6, Green Arrow III #24, Green Lantern IV #7, Hawkman V #5, JLA #27, JSA #76, Justice League of America II #0. Martian Manhunter II #0, 12, Power of Shazam II #10, Titans II #19 and Titans: Villains For Hire Special #1.

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