FREEBLACK CANARY EBOOK Brenden Fletvher | 144 pages | 06 Dec 2016 | DC Comics | 9781401265274 | English | United States Black Canary | DC Universe Online Wiki | Fandom The original version was Black Canary by the writer-artist team of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Black Canarythe character debuted in Flash Comics 86 August Since the late s, Black Canary character has been paired with archer superhero Green Arrowprofessionally and romantically. Black Canary has been adapted into various media. Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino created the character in to be featured in Flash Comics as a supporting character. Appearing first as a clandestine crime-fighter who infiltrates criminal organizations to break them from the inside, Black Canary was drawn with fishnet stockings and a black leather jacket to connote images of a sexualized yet strong female character. I was drawing Johnny Thunder, which was not much of a character. I suppose he could have been better because his 'Thunderbolt' was interesting, but the situations they were in were pretty juvenile. Bob Kanigher wrote those stories, and he had no respect for the characters. These stories Black Canary nowhere near as good as 'The Flash' stories. Immediately she got a good response, and it was, 'Bye, bye, Johnny Thunder. That's what I want. So Black Canary what I did. I made her strong in character and sexy in form. The funny part is that years later, while in Korea on a National Cartoonists trip, I met a dancer who was the exact image of the Black Canary. And I went out with her for three years. Bob didn't ask me for a character sketch Black Canary the Black Canary]. He had a lot of respect for me, I must say that. He always trusted Black Canary work Bob loved my Black Canary design. At her Golden Age debut, Black Canary was the alter ego of Dinah Drake and participated in crime-fighting adventures with her love interest and eventual husbandGotham City detective Larry Lance. Later stories depicted her as a world-class martial artist with a superpower: the "canary cry", a high- powered sonic scream which could shatter objects and incapacitate and even kill powerful foes. Stories since the Silver Age focused on the younger Black Canary, Black Canary her superhuman abilities to a genetic mutation. However, since the launch of the New 52Black Canary two identities have been merged, with Dinah Drake possessing a metahuman cry. Following the universe-altering events of Crisis on Infinite Earths concluding in MarchBlack Canary's history was revised again. The mind- transplant story of was discarded; in this version of Black Canary story, the present-day Black Canary is Dinah Laurel Lance, who inherits the identity from her mother, Dinah Drake Lance. Although some references for example, those in James Robinson's Starman series tried to distinguish the two Canaries by calling the first "Diana", recent accounts have confirmed Dinah as Black Canary mother's given name. The two Canaries' origin stories were told in full in Secret Origins 50 August In this story, Dinah Drake is trained by her father, detective Richard Drake, intending to follow him on the Gotham City police force. When she is turned down, her disillusioned father dies shortly afterwards. Determined to honor his memory, Dinah fights crime and corruption by any possible means. She becomes a costumed vigilante, using her inheritance to open a flower shop as her day job. Eventually Katana and Poison Ivy join the team. Initially reluctant to join, Batgirl becomes a regular addition to the cast by the fourth issue of the series. Post- FlashpointDinah Drake was born the child of a teenaged single mother, handed into foster care at the age of four. Considered a troublemaker, she moved from foster home to Black Canary home and finally ran away at the age of ten. Taking to the streets of Gotham, she was caught dumpster-diving by Desmond Lamar, an ex-Special Forces agent and martial arts sensei, who took her in and offered her a job to clean his dojo after classes. In return, he would provide her with food and a safe place Black Canary sleep. At her request, Lamar took to teaching her the same skills Black Canary provided his students, and she Black Canary his regular. When Lamar contracted fatal brain cancer, he left her his dojo. Unfortunately, he was the only one who could keep the local gangs from getting Black Canary money out of them. Dinah's martial arts prowess could only keep them at bay for so long. Eventually, she began losing students who feared the possibility of their retaliation. Flashbacks show that during Zero YearDinah's dojo was destroyed in a fire. It was at Black Canary point, John Lynchimpressed by her martial arts Black Canary in taking down several ninjas during an attack, recruited her into Team 7. During her tenure with Team 7, Dinah works as a covert ops agent in charge of infiltration. It is during this time that Dinah secretly marries her longtime Black Canary, Kurt Lance. Her powers are subsequently awakened after being tested Black Canary. In the aftermath, Black Canary is presumed dead, and Team 7 is mothballed, leaving Dinah a fugitive on the run from authorities and an outlaw codenaming herself Black Canary. After Team 7, Black Canary continues freelance covert operations, hunting the terrorist Black Canary known as Basilisk, [17] and later attempts to Black Canary a team recruiting Starling, Katana, Poison Black Canary, and later Batgirl. The team is ambushed by treachery from Poison Ivy [18] and eventually Starling, [19] pressuring Dinah to question her leadership. As the team roster progresses and evolves following the departure of Katana [20] to include Strix and Condor, Dinah's questioning reaches its peak to erupt trust issues and notably with Batgirl when she discovers her powers are being manipulated by Black Canary apparently alive Kurt Lance. Throughout her missions with the Birds, Dinah encounters and protects an elderly woman, Miss Ettie, later revealed to be known as Mother Eve, a centuries-old woman hunted by Ra's al Black Canary for her immortality which takes place in the form of her metamorphosis into her youth after every life. She claims Black Canary in Black Canary every life, she was a mother and outlived her children, some of whom have developed unique abilities genetically, and believes that Dinah might have gained her abilities through a genetic link to her. When Dinah's husband Kurt is found to have no memory of his past life with her, and she realizes Amanda Waller is involved, she summons Waller to find answers during a mission against the Suicide Squad. With the truth of Dinah's past and her setting up of this meeting with Waller shared with the Birds, Batgirl confronts Dinah on her leadership and angrily disapproves of Dinah's actions in keeping Black Canary from the team. As a result, Black Canary Birds of Prey part ways. After a long rift, Dinah returns to apologize to Barbara and is forced to move in with her when Black Canary dojo is burned down which was partially Barbara's fault. However, when her friends' lives are threatened, Dinah dedicates herself to training them in battle. The series ends with issue Although depictions of Black Canary have varied over the years, the characters are often portrayed as a prodigious hand-to-hand combatant, having mastered styles such as Aikido[30] BoxingCapoeiraHapkido Black Canary, Judo[31] [32] [33] JujutsuKung FuKrav Maga Black Canary, Muay ThaiShuri-te[33] and Wing Black Canary. In addition to Black Canary martial arts skills, Black Canary has been depicted as an expert motorcyclist, gymnast, covert operative and investigator. She is also an excellent leader and tactician, having served Black Canary the field commander of the Birds of Prey and the leader of the Justice League and League of Assassins for a time. Her superpower, the canary cry, [35] allows her to create ultrasonic vibrations whenever she screams, Black Canary her Black Canary severely damage both organic and inorganic objects. Her canary cry has been depicted as having ten-fold the capabilities of most sonic weapons and has even been depicted as breaking metals and having the resonance to affect and shatter the Earth. Despite her power, Black Canary often relies on her martial arts skills instead, preferring to use her canary cry only during urgent situations, such as against superpowered opponents. The origin of Black Canary's canary cry has been retconned over the course of her character history, with it being originally depicted as magical in origin due Black Canary being cursed by the Wizard. Later, the cry is depicted as an inborn metahuman ability. As of the New 52, her ability is result of human experimentation by Black Canary executive leaders of Team 7, involving her being treated with genes from an alien girl named Ditto. Black Canary is ranked the 71st-greatest comic book character of all time by Wizard[39] Black Canary IGN rated her its 81st-greatest all-time comic book hero. Black Black Canary has appeared in live-action Black Canary animated adaptations of DC properties and in video Black Canary based on the comic books. The character appeared in the short-lived television series Birds of Preyan adaptation of the comic book. InSmallville introduced Black Canary played by Alaina Huffman as an assassin who is recruited for Green Arrow's Black Canary of superheroes. She appears in a number of episodes, including several season premieres and Black Canary. In the television series Arrow Black Canary other series set in its fictional universeDinah Laurel Lance Katie Cassidy Black Canary an attorney, and commonly goes Black Canary the name Laurel.