PHANTOM LADY

Real Name: Delilah "Dee" Tyler

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Superhero TV station employee

Group Affiliation: formerly Freedom Fighters II, Black Lantern Corps

Known Relatives: Albert Tyler (father), Beau Tyler (uncle), Diana Tyler (mother)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Washington, D.C.

First Appearance: Action Comics Weekly #636 (January, 1989)

Powers: Phantom Lady's bracelet could shoot a laser, project holograms or grant her invisibility. 

History: Dee attended the Parisian finishing school Universite Notre Dame de Ombres, run by Sandra Knight, the 1940s mysterywoman known as Phantom Lady. Dee's father, an attorney general, was being blackmailed by cartel Less Mille Yeux, and she assumed the identity of Phantom Lady to aid him.

(JSA: Our Worlds at War #1) - During the Imperiex War Phantom Lady was called in as a JSA reserve on a mission to disrupt Imperiex s link to his ship s power supply. The JSA found that Imperiex s ship was leeching it s power from the planet Daxam, which Imperiex had pulled out of its  orbit. Phantom Lady was teamed with a group of reservists who dubbed themselves the Freedom Fighters, and they freed the Daxamites from Imperiex control, while the JSA not only cut off Imperiex from his power, but managed to blow up his ship as well.

(JSA #33) - The Ultra-Humanite used Johnny Thunder s Thunderbolt to conquer the world, and imprisoned Phantom Lady and virtually every other hero on Earth in stasis tubes. Phantom Lady and the other heroes were freed when the JSA defeated Ultra-Humanite.

(JSA #49-51) - Phantom Lady and the Freedom Fighters aided the JSA in a battle against Eclipso, who d possessed hundreds of New Yorkers and was tearing the city apart. The Freedom Fighters wrested away Eclipso's black diamond and gave it to Alex Montez, who used it to make Eclipso manifest in him, and kept Eclipso bound to his will using magic glyphs. The Freedom Fighters then aided the JSA in battling and defeating Eclipso's ally Mordru.

(JSA #73) - Phantom Lady and the Freedom Fighters prepped for a mission.

(Nightwing II #142, 143) - Phantom Lady s body was taken from Valhalla by Dr. Kendall s agents. Kendall created the Loyalists, a winged army created from the DNA of Phantom Lady and several other superhumans. Nighwing and Robin confronted the Loyalists on Kendall s African island base, and when the tide turned against him Kendall blew up the base, incinerating his collection of superhuman corpses.

Comments: Created by Len Strazewski & Chuck Austen.

Phantom Lady received a profile in Who's Who in the DC Universe #4.

Nightwing II #141 showed Phantom Lady s memorial statue in Valhalla.