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Character Profile: THE HUNTRESS (Silver-Age/Crisis)
1ST APPEARANCE (SILVER AGE): All-Star Comics #69 JOINED JSA: All-Star Comics #71 PRE-CRISIS FATE: Killed in Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 POST-CRISIS FATE: Retconned out of existence RESIDENCE: Gotham City OCCUPATION: Lawyer with Cranston, Grayson and Wayne POWERS/SKILLS: The Huntress was an heir to the Golden Age Batman and Catwoman. Trained to physical perfection, she was a master of several forms of martial techniques as well as equipped with a variety of weapons she inherited from her parents. Most commonly she relied on a collapsable crossbow she kept sheathed in her boot. WEAKNESSES/LIMITATIONS: The Huntress was a mortal woman without super-powers. HISTORY: Helena Wayne was born in 1957 to Bruce (Batman) and Selina (Catwoman) Wayne of Gotham City. Helena was raised in a loving family nutured by ancestral wealth and the rich experiences of her adventurer parents. She was educated at the best of schools and vigourously trained to superb atheletic prowess. Helena's education progressed in leaps and bounds, finishing college at 18 years of age. Ultimately, she followed the family tradition and pursued a law degree. Upon completion of law school, she joined the firm of Cranston and Grayson through connections with Richard Grayson, the former ward of Bruce Wayne. In 1976, Silky Cernak bribed Selina Wayne into donning her Catwoman gear to rob the Gotham Civic Center with fradulent evidence that the Catwoman had committed murder in the 1950's. During the course of the robbery, the Batman intervened and in the resulting conflict, a stray bullet struck Selina Wayne. Unbalanced from the impact, Catwoman fell several stories to her death. The loss of his wife shattered Wayne, who burned his Batman uniform the night of his wife's death. Equally traumatized, Helena fashioned a new uniform for herself as well as a set of a personal weaponry derived from her parents personal stock. She tracked Cernak, ultimately bringing him to justice. Committed to her pursuit of justice in her new costumed identity, she code-named herself "the Huntress" (DC Super-Stars #17). Shortly after his wife's death, Bruce Wayne fell under the sway of the Psycho-Pirate who convinced him to use his office in an attempt to brand the JSA as outlaws. The Huntress followed this case with some interest, observing in the shadows when the JSA finally resolved the case (All-Star Comics #69). She later intervened in a JSA case when Wildcat and the Star Spangled Kid thwarted the Strike Force, a criminal operation financed by the Star Spangled Kid's family fortune (All-Star Comics #70-71). When the Star-Spangled Kid resigned after this case, the Huntress joined the JSA full-time (All-Star Comics #72). Privately, the Helena Wayne remained an active member of Cranston, Grayson and Wayne. She confronted a number of enemies including the Thinker, Solomon Grundy and the Golden Age Joker (Wonder Woman #281-283). In the early 1980's, she became a police office liason as a result of her association with companion Harry Sims. She briefly associated herself with the fledgling super-group Infinity Inc. (Infinity Inc #1-10) but remained a member full-time of the JSA. During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Huntress survived the inital confrontations with the minions of the Anti-Monitor. After the mergings of the various parallel earths, the Huntress discovered that Helena Wayne's life no longer existed. The graves of her parents had vanished and her life as she remembered it never occured. Just before the end of the Crisis, the Anti-Monitor's minions attacked once more and in attempting to protect several children, the Huntress was gravely injured. Despite the protection of Robin, the minions closed in and buried the Huntress, Robin and Kole under a mountain of debris, slaying them all. As the "new" universe formed a stable history, the memory of the Huntress and all she had been faded from existence. The current version of the universe no longer remembers the existence of Helena Wayne or the Earth-2 Huntress. SILVER AGE APPEARANCES:
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