

Immediately she got a good response, and it was, 'Bye, bye, Johnny Thunder.' Nobody missed him. DC knew it-they knew 'Johnny Thunder' was a loser, so Kanigher and I brought the Black Canary into the series. These stories were nowhere near as good as 'The Flash' stories. Bob Kanigher wrote those stories, and he had no respect for the characters. I suppose he could have been better because his 'Thunderbolt' was interesting, but the situations they were in were pretty juvenile. I was drawing Johnny Thunder, which was not much of a character.

She appeared as a character in a back-up story featuring " Johnny Thunder": Appearing first as a clandestine crime-fighter who infiltrates criminal organizations to break them from the inside, the Black Canary was drawn with fishnet stockings and a black leather jacket to connote images of a sexualized yet strong female character. Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino created the character in 1947 to be featured in Flash Comics as a supporting character. Dinah Lance made her cinematic debut in the 2020 DC Extended Universe Birds of Prey film, portrayed by Jurnee Smollett. In Arrow and other Arrowverse shows the characters Dinah Laurel Lance, Sara Lance and Dinah Drake are portrayed by Katie Cassidy, Caity Lotz and Juliana Harkavy respectively.
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In Birds of Prey television series she was played by Rachel Skarsten and Lori Loughlin, and in Smallville she was played by Alaina Huffman. The Black Canary has been adapted into various media. As well as featuring in many Green Arrow stories, she is closely associated with the Batman family of characters, and specifically Barbara Gordon, her best friend, with whom she leads the superhero team Birds of Prey. Since the late 1960s, the character has been paired with archer superhero the Green Arrow, both professionally and romantically. One of DC's earliest superheroines, the title Black Canary has appeared in many of the company's flagship team-up titles, including Justice Society of America and Justice League of America. The original version was created by the writer-artist team of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino, the character debuted in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947). The Black Canary is the name of two superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics: Dinah Drake and her daughter Dinah Laurel Lance. Master martial artist and unarmed combatant.The New 52 iteration of the Black Canary, Dinah Drake Lance, derived character art from the cover of Black Canary #4 (September 2015).
