Huntress (comics)
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
The Golden Age Huntress was a supervillain with the real name of Paula Brooks who battled the superhero Wildcat, first appearing in Sensation Comics #68. She joined the second Injustice Society of America and stole the Plymouth Rock. She married fellow supervillain Sportsmaster.
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 Wayne
The Bronze 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.
Huntress
A huntress is a female who engages in the act of hunting.
Huntress may also refer to:
Comics
- Huntress, an identity of Paula Brooks, a Golden Age supervillain character
- Huntress (Helena Wayne), a superhero character that first appeared in 1977
- Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), a superhero character that first appeared in 1989
Other uses
Huntress (band)
Huntress is an American heavy metal band. It was founded in the underground of Highland Park, California when lead vocalist Jill Janus moved to Los Angeles where she met an underground metal band called 'Professor' in 2009. Huntress was signed by Napalm Records in November 2011. A debut EP Off with Her Head was released in 2010. On December 27, 2011, they released their first single, "Eight of Swords", to promote their debut album, Spell Eater.
In October 2015, Janus posted a now-deleted note on Facebook announcing the band would finish its activities, but that she would continue to make music. Guitarist Blake Meahl, however, dismissed her statement as a consequence of her health and mental issues, and said the band would continue to perform.
Style
The band's style has been observed as classic heavy metal with influences of thrash and dark metal. The songs feature frequent screaming by lead singer Janus who is professionally trained in Opera and has a vocal range of four octaves.
Mockingbird (Marvel Comics)
Mockingbird (Barbara "Bobbi" Morse) is a fictional character, a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Mockingbird first appeared in Astonishing Tales #6 in 1971 as a supporting character and eventual love interest of Ka-Zar. She is soon revealed to be a highly trained agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as a Ph.D in biology. She first uses the moniker "Mockingbird" in Marvel Team-Up #95 (July 1980), and goes on to be a member of several Avengers teams.
In 2012, Mockingbird was listed as #48 on IGN's "Top 50 Avengers". She is portrayed by Adrianne Palicki in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series.
Publication history
Mockingbird first appears in the Ka-Zar story in Astonishing Tales #6 (June 1971) written by Gerry Conway and pencilled by Barry Smith. The earliest story to be written and drawn (by Len Wein and Neal Adams) featuring the character was intended to appear in Savage Tales #2 (July 1971), but the series was canceled (a #2 and subsequent series appeared much later) and new homes were found for the stories in the ensuing months. In subsequent publications, creators including Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Neal Adams, Mike Friedrich, Archie Goodwin, George Evans, Steven Grant, and Mark Gruenwald made significant contributions to the development of the character.
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