Back to reading my 1976 calendar, and I see here we have a birthday girl- or make that lady...
Sandra Knight, The Phantom Lady. Created by the Eisner&Iger studios with artist Arthur Peddy, Phantom Lady debuted in Police Comics #1 (August, 1941). She was originally a Quality Comics star. The bearer of the Black Light Bands, was brought into the DC Universe a few years before this calendar was printed. In Justice League of America #107, she and several other Quality characters, were retconned into living on Earth X (a planet where the Nazis won the war). Together, Phantom Lady and the rest, made up the Freedom Fighters. For a character that got her start at another company, they sure have worked overtime to give her some serious DC roots. It would be revealed that she was the original Starman's (Ted Knight) cousin, the wife of Young All-Star member Iron Munro (they even had a couple of kids together), and that she's the grandmother of the current Manhunter (Kate Spencer)! She eventually retired from super-heroing, and passed the mantle on to the late Dee Tyler. There is now another Phantom Lady, Stormy Knight, running around with a new group of Freedom Fighters- but no one could fill out that yellow bathing suit as well as the original.
Tomorrow, we stay with the ladies. But, keeping this woman's history sorted will be a ROYAL pain...
Sandra Knight, The Phantom Lady. Created by the Eisner&Iger studios with artist Arthur Peddy, Phantom Lady debuted in Police Comics #1 (August, 1941). She was originally a Quality Comics star. The bearer of the Black Light Bands, was brought into the DC Universe a few years before this calendar was printed. In Justice League of America #107, she and several other Quality characters, were retconned into living on Earth X (a planet where the Nazis won the war). Together, Phantom Lady and the rest, made up the Freedom Fighters. For a character that got her start at another company, they sure have worked overtime to give her some serious DC roots. It would be revealed that she was the original Starman's (Ted Knight) cousin, the wife of Young All-Star member Iron Munro (they even had a couple of kids together), and that she's the grandmother of the current Manhunter (Kate Spencer)! She eventually retired from super-heroing, and passed the mantle on to the late Dee Tyler. There is now another Phantom Lady, Stormy Knight, running around with a new group of Freedom Fighters- but no one could fill out that yellow bathing suit as well as the original.
Tomorrow, we stay with the ladies. But, keeping this woman's history sorted will be a ROYAL pain...
I bet tomorrow's lady CAN'T be as convoluted as "Phoenix" or "Jean Gray" or "Madeline Pryor" or whatever else she was called. I still have a headache from trying to read her history in the Marvel Handbook.
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