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The Huntress is a name used by several characters in DC Comics. The Golden Age Huntress is a supervillainess, while the Bronze Age and Modern Age Huntresses are superheroines.
Paula Brooks
She was later retroactively renamed the Tigress in the pages of Young All-Stars. These stories took place prior to her villainous career. At this point, the young Paula Brooks was a super-heroine, and fought both Nazis and criminals as a Young All-Stars member. Helena WayneThe Silver Age Huntress was Helena Wayne, the daughter of the Batman and Catwoman of Earth-Two, an alternate universe established in the early 1960s as the world where the Golden Age stories took place. Earth-Two was also the home of the Golden Age versions of various DC characters. Image:Helena wayne.JPG Helena Wayne as the Huntress. Created by Paul Levitz and Joe Staton,and Bob Layton her first appearance was in All Star Comics #69 (December 1977) and DC Super-Stars #17, which came out the same month and revealed her origin. The bulk of her solo stories appeared as backup features in issues of Wonder Woman that were published in the early 1980s.
Helena begun her super-hero career when a criminal blackmailed her mother into resuming action once again as Catwoman -- an act which eventually led to her death. Helena, deciding to bring the criminal responsible to justice, created a costume for herself, fashioned some weapons from her parents' equipment (including her eventual trademark, a crossbow), and set out to bring in the criminal. After accomplishing this, Helena decided to continue to fight crime, under the code name the "Huntress." In All Star Comics #72, Helena formally joined the Justice Society of America where she struck up a friendship with fellow new superheroine Power Girl. As a JSA member, she participated in several of the annual JLA/JSA meetings, most of which took place on Earth-One. Helena was also briefly associated with the superhero group Infinity, Inc.. During the 1985 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, Helena was killed while attempting to save the lives of several children. After Crisis ended, Helena Wayne's existence, like that of her parents and Earth-Two's Dick Grayson, was retroactively erased from the remaining Earth and the world no longer remembered her. Following the character's death and erasure from history in Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (1986), DC created a new Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), whose costume and weaponry are similar to Helena Wayne's. In Superman/Batman #27, Power Girl, whose memories of Earth-Two were restored, recollects an untold adventure she had with the Huntress in which they clash with the Ultra-Humanite and Solomon Grundy. Helena BertinelliFollowing the 1985 miniseries, Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Helena Wayne version of the Huntress was removed from continuity. Due to the popularity of the character, DC Comics introduced a new version of the Huntress with the same first name and a similar costume, but with an entirely different backstory and different personality. The Modern Age Huntress is Helena Rosa Bertinelli, the daughter of one of Gotham's mafia bosses who, after seeing her entire family murdered by a mob hit, vows revenge. During the No Man's Land she works as Batgirl, but not alongside Batman (who the citizens believe abandoned them). Batman rarely accepts the Huntress, believing her to be too unpredictable and violent. Others in the Batman family feel differently; for instance, Tim Drake has a good relationship with her. Early in his career he worked with the female vigilante, and later clears her name in a murder case. Batman sponsors Huntress' membership in the Justice League,[1] and for some time, Huntress is a respected member of the League. Under the guidance of heroes such as Superman, Helena grows in confidence but is forced to resign after Batman stops her from killing the villain Prometheus.[2] The emergence of Bertinelli as the Huntress has not kept DC from occasionally paying homage to the Helena Wayne incarnation of the character. During a post-Crisis JLA-JSA team-up, Bertinelli is so impressed with the skill and prowess of the Flash (Jay Garrick), Hippolyta and Wildcat, she states humbly, "I wanna join the Justice Society . . . ."[3] Helena is currently a member of the Birds of Prey, and although still prone at times to excessive violence, she has become a valuable member of the team. In other media
Image:Barbara Joyce Huntress.jpg Actress Barbara Joyce as the Huntress in the 1979 NBC Legends of the Superheroes TV special, Huntress' first non-comics appearance. Image:Huntressani.png Huntress, as she appears in Justice League Unlimited.
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