Real
Name: Dinah Barton
Real
Name: Dinah Barton
Identity/Class: Extra-dimensional (Earth-Amalgam) altered human
Occupation: super heroine
Affiliations: (currently) the Judgment League: Avengers, Angelhawk (Warren Hall), Captain Marvel (Billy Mar-Vell), Dark Claw (Logan Wayne), Goliath (Oliver Queen), Hawkeye (Clint Archer), Red Vision, Super-Soldier (Clark Kent); (formerly) JLA: The New Blood (now known as the JLX); Apollo (Ray Summers), Firebird (Beatriz Grey), Mariner (Arthur McKenzie), Mercury (Pietro "Pete" Allen), Nightcreeper (Kurt Ryder), Runaway, Wraith (Todd LeBeau)
Enemies: Will Magnus; Sinistron
Known Relatives: none
Aliases: none
Base of Operations: JLA Headquarters
First Appearance: JLX#1 (April, 1996); Judgment League: Avengers#1 (in Amalgam continuity)
Powers/Abilities: Canary possesses a sonic cry.
History:
(Judgment League: Avengers (vol.
I)#1) - Canary, whose sonic cry developed during a
cross-dimensional trip on a mis-wired time platform, made her first on-panel
appearance.
(Judgment League: Avengers (vol. I)#4) - Along
with fellow heroes Angelhawk (Warren
Hall) and Goliath (Oliver
Queen), Canary discovered the body of the World War II hero known
as Super-Soldier (Clark Kent) in suspended
animation -- frozen in an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. The
shocked heroes carefully defrosted Super-Soldier's body, discovering to their
delight that he was still alive after all these years. Finally back
in action, Super-Soldier joined forces with Canary and the other assembled
heroes and formed the Judgment League:
Avengers.
(Judgment League: Avengers (vol.
I) (bts)) - When Canary first met fellow Judgment League:
Avenger member Hawkeye (Clint Archer),
Cupid's arrows flew -- although she found herself torn between the emerald
bowman and Goliath.
(Secret Crisis of the Infinity
Hour) - Along with the other members of the JLA, Canary was
transported to Apokolips by
Doctor Strangefate (Charles Xavier) in
order to fight the forces of
Thanoseid during the
Secret Crisis of the Infinity
Hour.
(Secret Crisis of the Infinity
Hour#7) - Near the close of the Secret Crisis of the Infinity
Hour, Canary was among those heroes present as
American Girl (Carol Barnes), the former
sidekick of Super-Soldier, heroically sacrificed her life to further the
heroes' cause.
(Judgment League: Avengers (vol. II)#122)
- "Trial of Mariner" - The metamutant member of the Judgment League: Avengers
known as Aqua-Mariner (Arthur McKenzie)
was framed for the destruction of three Roxxon oil freighters, a heinous
criminal act which was actually perpetrated by the metamutant-hating madman
known as Will Magnus. Given
Aqua-Mariner's longtime personal war against surface dwellers who would harm
his undersea habitat, the United States government automatically labeled
him an "eco-terrorist" and sent in an army of troops to apprehend him without
so much as an investigation. Canary and her fellow non-metamutant members
of the JLA eventually captured Aqua-Mariner and imprisoned him without
trial.
Outraged by the manner in which their fellow metamutant was
imprisoned without trial, most of the metamutant members of the JLA, under
the guidance of the mysterious New Gotham
power broker known only as Mr. X (Marco
Xavier), freed Aqua-Mariner from JLA custody and set out to find
the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary
city of Homo Superior, under the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. But
the Canary and her fellow non-metamutant members of the Judgment League:
Avengers were not about to give up Aqua-Mariner without a fight . . .
(JLX
#1) - "A League of Their Own" - On the stormy waters of the North Atlantic
Ocean, Canary and the Judgment League: Avengers engaged their former teammates
-- the band of renegade metamutants now known as the JLX -- in an attempt
to capture the metamutant Aqua-Mariner, who was wanted for torching Roxxon
oil tankers. Sitting atop the shoulder of fellow JLA member Goliath, Canary
boarded the JLX Wavecruiser, but was soon temporarily disabled by JLX member
Wraith's (Todd LeBeau) shadow powers
while Goliath was preoccupied with JLX member
Runaway. After Angelhawk (the JLA member
who was secretly a metamutant in league with Mr. X) feigned a broken back,
Super-Soldier instructed the Judgment League: Avengers to retreat so that
they could seek medical treatment for Angelhawk, vowing to bring Aqua-Mariner
to justice another day.
Comments: created by Gerard Jones, Mark Waid, Howard Porter, and John Dell; "JLX-Press" letter column created by Brian Augustyn
Key:
Marvel characters are listed in regular, or bold black
type.
DC characters are listed
in bold blue type.
Amalgam characters are
listed in bold purple type.
In case you're confused, Amalgam Comics didn't really exist beyond those seen in the few DC/Marvel cross-over. The titles you don't recognize are amalgams of similar Marvel and DC comics--Snood.
JUDGMENT LEAGUE: AVENGERS
#1 is an amalgam of Marvel's AVENGERS (Marvel's
Mockingbird
made his first Avengers appearance in AVENGERS (vol.
I)#239) and DC's JUSTICE LEAGUE OF
AMERICA.
Special thanks to penciler Matthew
Haley for identifying Canary (Dinah Barton)
as one of the characters present at the death of
American Girl (Carol Barnes) in
SECRET CRISIS OF THE INFINITY HOUR
#7.
Special thanks to Ivan Schablotski for providing me with the Amalgam Comics Trading Cards that I didn't already have!
Profile by Skullogeist
If you like the Amalgam stuff, Skullogeist recommends these two sites:
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http://www.io.com/~woodward/chroma/amalgam.html
CLARIFICATIONS:
Also assume
that the Amalgam characters have no other connection to any others than whom
they are Amalgamated, unless specifically mentioned.
Canary is an amalgam of:
Mockingbird of Earth-616, Barbara "Bobbi" (Morse) Barton, @ Astonishing Tales (vol. I)#6
Black Canary of the mainstream DC Universe,
Dinah Laurel Lance, @ Justice League of America (vol. I)
#75
First Posted: 07/09/2003
Any Additions/Corrections? please
let me
know.
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Last updated: 07/09/2003
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