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Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blake) (Comic Book Character) - Powers/Abilities Lady Blackhawk is an ace flier, able to easily handle any form of aircraft and also a fine markswoman and hand-to-hand combatant. She if often known to dual wield hand guns which she is an expert with and on one occasion even used a shot gun. History Zinda Blake was determined to become the first woman member of the famed Blackhawks. She trained herself in flying the most modern jet aircraft and in various forms of combat and weaponry. After rescuing Olaf from a villain called the Scavenger, Zinda was disappointed to be told that the Blackhawk code forbid a woman from joining the team. However, later when Zinda rescued the entire Blackhawk team, Blackhawk himself made her an honorary member. During her time with the Blackhawks, Zinda was captured by the villainous Killer Shark, a Nazi Operative and a Pirate. Killer Shark injected Zinda with a chemical that made her forget who she really was and believed herself to be completely in love with him and obeying his every whim. During her time under his controll Zinda became Queen Killer Shark and continued to battle the Blackhawks before they could free her from the effects of his chemical. Zinda was never able to really settle her score with Killer Shark. During the DC event Zero Hour, Zinda was sent forward in time to present day, where she struggled with the culture shock and worked for the Blackhawk Shipping Company, present day version of her former team. Arriving in the future, she befriends Guy Gardner and joins his team serving mainly as his pilot putting her best skills to good use. Looking for a change, she accepted Oracle's offer to join the Birds of Prey and left behind her part in the Blackhawk Company, taking only the Aeirie One Citation X and becoming pilot for the Birds. Zinda enjoys cooking, dancing, and drinking in her spare time. There is a running gag through most issues of Birds of Prey about her strong love for alcohol, which, she boasts, she can order in 30 different languages. For a time, she had a crush on another one of Oracle's agents, Creote, only to find out he was gay, or "fancy" as she calls it. She is a valuable addition to the Birds of Prey and has become somewhat of a conscience for Oracle offering friendly advice here and there. Zinda is also the person who oifficially comes up with the teams name calling themselves the birds of prey. Zinda proves her self to be a usefull member of the team as her piloting skills has help the team get out of sticky situations. Zinda has also proven herself on the field once saving Black Canary from Harvest by shooting the supernatural force. After the death of Big Barda, Zinda mourns the death of her friend by visiting as many bars as she can (referring to it as a warriors wake) on the way to Edwards Air Force Base. During her journey Zinda befriends a cab driver named Massaud while at the same time she is being hunted by FalseFace and White Star who under orders of the Calculator who wishes to replace Zinda with False Face and finally learn the true identity of Oracle. The journey ends with Zinda and Massaud arriving at the bar of Edwards Air Force Base and tells the bartender to place a picture of Big Barda up next to her old comarades the Blackhawks. In a more recent storyline, Zinda is kiddnapped by Killer Shark II, a young fanboy jerk who is the grandson of one of her WWII foes, the original Killer Shark. She first encounters him after having drinks with team mate Huntress to deal with the events that led Metropolis to be seriously damaged and the now distant Oracle who feels responsible. Zinda sees the shadow of Killer Shark outside the bar but comes to theconclusion that she is halucinating due to being drunk. Later that night while asleep she wakes up to him spying on her through her window and chases him on the fire escape. Killer Shark pulls out his gun but Zinda marksmanship helps her shoot it out of his hand and land a punch on him. However Killer Shark is able to take the punch and return one back. He then reviels to her that he is not hear to kill her before he leaves. As Zinda returns to her appartment she finds written coordinates on her window to help her find him. Zinda tracks Killer Shark down and is drugged by him and forced to lead Killer Shark II to his grandfathers treasure. Huntress attempts to save Zinda only to end up fighting Queen Killer Shark. Because Huntress hesitates Zinda is able to knock her out, however Killer Shark decides not kill her as he wishes to use the his grand fathers chemical on her as well. After tying Huntress up Zinda finally leads Killer Shark to his grandfathers tressure. This causes Killer Shark to cry and to reveal that he had originally intended on killing her after he got his tressure but has changed his mind. As he leans in for a kiss, Zinda subconciouslly punches himbreaking his teeth and which causes Killer Shark to proceed with his original plan and kill her as she is forced to stand still but she snaps out of it with the help of teammate Huntress who arrives just in time to knock Killer Shark out.
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Today many DC fans know Zinda Blake, the Lady Blackhawk thrust forward in time to become the brassiest member of the Birds of Prey. But before her debut in Blackhawk #133 (Feb. 1959), there had been several aspirants during the Quality era... The first “lady Blackhawk,” Sugar, from Military #20 (July 1943). Art by Reed Crandall. The second lady pretender, Eve Rice, from Military #34 (Nov. 1944); art by Al Bryant. The third lady who would be Blackhawk (or She-Hawke), Sheila Hawke, from Blackhawk #40 (May 1951); art by Reed Crandall. Fear was a frequent guest star. She never aspired to be a Blackhawk, and was never an adversary. This panel from her first appearance in Modern Comics #49 (May 1946); artist uncertain. Two panels from the official Lady Blackhawk's debut, in Blackhawk #133 (1959, DC). Hendrickson's daughter, Elsa, was likely slated to become a Lady Blackhawk in 1977. In the letters column of issue #249, "As for your requests for Elsa taking her place as a Blackhawk like her famous father, well, we'll have to tell you to keep with us. It seems your thoughts are very close to our own." The lady is a Blackhawk—for real this time. Natalie Reed, from Blackhawk v.2 #3 (1988). Art by Howard Chaykin. In the "New 52" lineup of Blackhawks, Lady Blackhawk was raven haired, and the primary field leader. Her eye patch harkens recalls Natalie Reed. When Blackhawks #5 was solicited, it depicted a blonde Lady Blackhawk, which was either a trick or mistake. The final cover was corrected. Don't foget Blackie the hawk, who first appeared in Blackhawk #75 (Apr. 1954); art by Dick Dillin & Chuck Cuidera. He only appeared once in Quality Comics. » See more Blackhawk Gallery Items at Cosmic Teams!
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Huntress & Lady Blackhawk by Alina Urusov
Today many DC fans know Zinda Blake, the Lady Blackhawk thrust forward in time to become the brassiest member of the Birds of Prey. But before her debut in Blackhawk #133 (Feb. 1959), there had been several aspirants during the Quality era... The first “lady Blackhawk,” Sugar, from Military #20 (July 1943). Art by Reed Crandall. The second lady pretender, Eve Rice, from Military #34 (Nov. 1944); art by Al Bryant. The third lady who would be Blackhawk (or She-Hawke), Sheila Hawke, from Blackhawk #40 (May 1951); art by Reed Crandall. Fear was a frequent guest star. She never aspired to be a Blackhawk, and was never an adversary. This panel from her first appearance in Modern Comics #49 (May 1946); artist uncertain. Two panels from the official Lady Blackhawk's debut, in Blackhawk #133 (1959, DC). Hendrickson's daughter, Elsa, was likely slated to become a Lady Blackhawk in 1977. In the letters column of issue #249, "As for your requests for Elsa taking her place as a Blackhawk like her famous father, well, we'll have to tell you to keep with us. It seems your thoughts are very close to our own." The lady is a Blackhawk—for real this time. Natalie Reed, from Blackhawk v.2 #3 (1988). Art by Howard Chaykin. In the "New 52" lineup of Blackhawks, Lady Blackhawk was raven haired, and the primary field leader. Her eye patch harkens recalls Natalie Reed. When Blackhawks #5 was solicited, it depicted a blonde Lady Blackhawk, which was either a trick or mistake. The final cover was corrected. Don't foget Blackie the hawk, who first appeared in Blackhawk #75 (Apr. 1954); art by Dick Dillin & Chuck Cuidera. He only appeared once in Quality Comics. » See more Blackhawk Gallery Items at Cosmic Teams!
"Endrun, Part Two of Four: The Rage of the White Canary": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written. Birds of Prey (Volume 2) #2 is an issue of the series Birds of Prey (Volume 2) with a cover date of August, 2010. It was published on June 16, 2010. Featured Characters: Birds of Prey Black Canary Huntress Lady Blackhawk Oracle Supporting Characters: Dove Hawk Penguin Antagonists: White Canary Gotham City Police Department Other Characters: Aquaman (Cameo) Creote (Apparent Death) Mera
I know I just recently showed an early Blackhawk story from World War II. The war is over for the Blackhawks here, unless you consider the...
Following his return in Action #254 and #255, Bizarro made several more appearances. Apparently the character was popular enough that DC gave him a continuing feature in Adventure starting with #285, the June 1961 issue. This had a cascading effect. Congorilla was dropped after a long history as Congo Bill that stretched through More Fun to Action (for over 200 consecutive issues) to Adventure. Congo Bill was at the time the third-longest running feature in DC Comics, after Superman and Batman. Aquaman was bumped from the backup spot in Adventure that he had held down for almost 15 years. He was briefly sent over to Detective, causing the cancellation of Roy Raymond, who exposed frauds on his tv show in that slot for about 12 years. After eight issues there, he was sent to World's Finest, resulting in the cancellation of yet another long-running series, Tommy Tomorrow (although DC would soon give the series several tryout issues). Just another example of how Bizarro tended to bump things around, I guess. Now, when Bizarro appears on Earth, he's trouble for Superman and a somewhat tragic figure. But on his own world he's an everyman, with a wife and children. Yes, children. Never mind that we had been assured from the beginning that Bizarros weren't alive, somehow they could reproduce sexually because Bizarro #1 and Bizarro Lois Lane #1 had both a son and a daughter, and there were many other children. The Bizarro stories often focused on the oddities of that world: The writers, egged on by readers' suggestions, came up with more and more examples of just how bizarre the Bizarros were. The Bizarro washing machine takes clean clothes and makes them dirty. The Bizarro children go off to school, where they try hard to learn the wrong answers. This causes some ironic problems: In the second story we learn the Bizarro Code: We also discover the name of the Bizarro planet: Htrae (Earth spelled backwards).
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Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blake) Misfit (Charlie Gage-Radcliffe) Birds of Prey #123 Another one of the really great trios we've seen on the Birds of Prey.
