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Black Canary is a fictional superheroine in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by the writer-artist team of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino, the character debuted in ''Flash Comics'' #86 (August 1947). One of DC's earliest super-heroines, Black Canary has appeared in many of the company's flagship team-up titles including Justice Society of America and Justice League of America. Since the late 1960s the character has frequently been paired with archer superhero Green Arrow professionally and romantically, and they eventually married. At her Golden Age of Comic Books debut, Black Canary was the alter ego of Dinah Drake and participated in crime-fighting adventures with her love interest (and eventual husband), Gotham City detective Larry Lance. Although she did not have superpowers, the character was a hand-to-hand fighter who frequently posed as a criminal to infiltrate organized crime. Black Canary was a member of the Justice Society of America, the first comic-book superhero team. The character was revived after a number of years during one of the annual Justice League/Justice Society team-ups. At the end of one, her husband Larry Lance is killed. Dinah then crossed dimensions from what DC called Earth-Two, to Earth-One. Later, Silver Age of Comic Books stories depicted her as a world-class martial artist with a superpower: the "Canary Cry", a high-powered sonic scream which could shatter objects and incapacitate enemies. The crossing from Earth-One to Earth-Two was given as the reason for the development of her Canary Cry. DC Comics adjusted its continuity, explained that Black Canary was two characters: mother and daughter Dinah Drake and Dinah Laurel Lance. Stories since the Silver Age have focused on the younger Black Canary, ascribing her superhuman abilities to a genetic mutation. In 2011 DC Comics again reset its continuity, establishing Black Canary as a singular superpowered heroine and former Team 7 agent, Dinah Lance (née Drake). Black Canary has been adapted into various media, and has received renown for her major roles in ''Birds of Prey'', ''Justice League Unlimited'', ''Smallville'', ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'', ''Young Justice'' and more recently CW's ''Arrow''. The character is ranked the 71st-greatest comic-book character of all time by ''Wizard'',〔 〕 and IGN rated her its 81st-greatest all-time comic-book hero. She was number 26 on ''Comics Buyer's Guide's'' "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. ==Publication history== Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino created the character in 1947 to be featured in ''Flash Comics'' as a supporting character. Appearing first as a clandestine crime-fighter who infiltrates criminal organizations to break them from the inside, Black Canary was drawn with fishnet stockings and a black leather jacket to connote images of a sexualized yet strong female character. She appeared as a character in a back-up story featuring "Johnny Thunder": According to Amash & Nolen-Weathington (2010), Black Canary is "really" Carmine Infantino's "first character."〔 According to the famed artist: "When Kanigher gave me the script, I said, 'How do you want me to draw her?' He said, 'What's your fantasy of a good-looking girl? That's what I want.' Isn't that a great line? So that's what I did. I made her strong in character and sexy in form. The funny part is that years later, while in Korea on a National Cartoonists trip, I met a dancer who was the exact image of the Black Canary. And I went out with her for three years. Bob didn't ask me for a character sketch (the Black Canary ). He had a lot of respect for me, I must say that. He always trusted my work . . . Bob loved my Black Canary design."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Canary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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