Black Canary (Dinah Drake)
Black Canary (Dinah Drake) is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by the writer-artist team of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino, the character debuted in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947) as the first Black Canary in the Golden Age of Comic Books. Strong, mysterious, gutsy and romantic, she has been called "the archetype of the new Film Noir era heroine."
| Black Canary | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Flash Comics #86 (August 1947) |
| Created by | Robert Kanigher Carmine Infantino |
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| Alter ego | Dinah Drake |
| Species | Metahuman |
| Team affiliations | Justice Society of America Justice League |
| Notable aliases | Siu Jerk Jai, Operative Canary, D.D., Dangerous Diva, Canary, Laurel |
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One of DC's earliest super-heroines, Black Canary debuted on July 31st, 1947, and since has appeared as part of the Justice Society of America. She participated in crime-fighting adventures with her love interest (and eventual husband), Gotham City detective Larry Lance. She and Larry are also the parents of Dinah Laurel Lance, who succeeds the former as the Black Canary in the post-Crisis narratives. In the character's earliest stories, she was introduced as a hand-to-hand fighter without superpowers who often posed as a criminal to infiltrate dangerous gangs. For a number of years following DC's 2011 The New 52 initiative, Black Canary was briefly portrayed as one character, before her mother-and-daughter dynamic was restored to continuity.
Dinah Drake appears in media set in the Arrowverse, portrayed by Juliana Harkavy.