Spider Girl
| Spider Girl | |
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 Post-Zero Hour version of Spider Girl |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Adventure Comics #310 (July 1963) (Pre Zero Hour - mentioned) Adventure Comics #323 (July 1964) (Pre Zero Hour - full appearance) Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #64 (Post-Zero Hour) |
| Created by | Jim Tillery Jerry Siegel John Forte |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Sussa Paka |
| Team affiliations | Workforce Legion of Super-Villains Legion of Super-Heroes Justice League of Earth |
| Notable aliases | Wave |
| Abilities | Super-strong prehensile hair |
Spider Girl (Sussa Paka) is a fictional character in DC Comics.
The character was first mentioned as a concept in the letters page of Adventure Comics when a fan suggested a character with the power of super-strong prehensile hair.[1]
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Spider Girl formally first appeared as a failed Legion of Super-Heroes applicant.[2]
She went on to join Tarik the Mute's underground academy for supervillains and later the Legion of Super-Villains.
[edit] Pre-Zero Hour biography
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[edit] Five Year Gap
During the Five-Year Gap storyline in Legion, Paka was written as a half-reformed thief with a crush on Legionnaire Ultra Boy.
She joined the Legion as Spider Girl but changed her codename to Wave just before the Legion reboot, dyeing her hair a sea-blue color.[3]
[edit] Post-Zero Hour biography
Spider Girl's first appearance after the Zero Hour event occurred in Legion of Super-Heroes v.4 #64 as a member of the Workforce. She had a relationship with Ultra Boy while he was also a member of the team. As a result of this she was extremely resentful of Apparition.
[edit] Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes
What appears to be a revamped version of the pre-Crisis Spider Girl appears in the Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes story beginning in Action Comics #859. In this version, she is a member of the "Justice League of Earth", a group of Earth-born Legion rejects which has seized control of Earth and banished the Legion and other extraterrestrials by spreading lies that Superman was a human that hated all aliens.
[edit] Powers and abilities
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In both incarnations, Spider Girl possesses prehensile hair. She can use her hair to ensnare or bind her opponents. As Wave, her hair was bluish; as Spider Girl, her hair was reddish.
[edit] In other media
[edit] Television
- Spider Girl appears in her Wave identity (with the blue-dyed hair) in the Legion of Super-Heroes animated television series. She appears as a member of the Light Speed Vanguard (Legion of Super-Villains).[4] She displays the ability to wrap and lift things with her hair like her comic book counterpart.
[edit] References
- ^ Adventure Comics #310
- ^ Adventure Comics #323
- ^ Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #54 (1994)
- ^ Legion of Super Heroes episode "Lightning Storm"
[edit] External links
- Legion Online Biography
- Pre-Zero Hour Unofficial Biography
- Post-Zero Hour Unofficial Biography
- Hero History: Wave
