Super Squad JSA
All-Star Comics 69
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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All-Star Comics 69 Modern
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0608301021
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Owner:
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pgbeckstrom
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Picked this up on ebay for $100. I may have overpaid but I felt that a 9.6 for the first app. of the Huntress was a good deal. Although this issue shares the Huntress' first appearance with DC Super Stars 17. Thanks to hitman 1099 for working with me to pick up this issue!
The Huntress first appeared in DC Super Stars #17 (December 1977) and was introduced to the JSA in All-Star Comics #69 (December 1977). Helena Wayne was born in 1957. Due to her parents wealth, Helena was very well educated and became a keen athlete not surprising considering her parents were Batman and Catwoman. She decided to study law and went to work with Cranston and Grayson, Law Firm of her adopted brother, Dick Grayson (Robin). In 1976 Catwoman was blackmailed into becoming a criminal again and later died as a result. Helena created the identity of the Huntress in an effort to catch the man responsible for her mother's death.
Helena became a very successful heroine. She joined the Justice Society of America and later joined Infinity, Inc. Helena struck up a bond with fellow superhero Power Girl (cousin of the Earth 2 Superman) and also the vigilante Blackwing of Earth 2 who protected Gotham in her absence. Earth 1 and 2 had many crossovers and Helena developed a niece-uncle relationship with the Batman of Earth 1. The Batman of Earth 1 helped her cope with the death of her father at the hands of a magically enhanced Bill Jensen in 1979. Helena also had a brief flirtation with Dick Grayson but her main love was Harry Sims a Gotham city district attorney. The romance turned unsuccessful after he found out about her career as the Huntress.
The Huntress also had wide array of peculiar villains such as the original Huntress, Mob boss Stenville, Thinker, Joker, Boa, assassin Karnage, Lionmane and even the Earth 1 version of her mother Catwoman. The Huntress' career was cut tragically short in Crisis on Infinite Earths. She was killed along with her adopted brother Robin while trying to rescue some children. She was then wiped out of existence by the Crisis.
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