26 Facts About Phantom Lady

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Phantom Lady is a fictional superheroine, one of the first such characters to debut in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books.

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Phantom Lady's used a "black light projector", a device which allowed her to blind her enemies and make herself invisible.

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3.

Phantom Lady's drove a car whose headlights projected black light when necessary.

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4.

Phantom Lady's was sometimes assisted by her fiance, Donald Borden, an agent of the U S State Department.

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5.

The cover, which illustrated Phantom Lady attempting to escape from ropes, was presented by Wertham with a caption that read, "sexual stimulation by combining 'headlights' with the sadist's dream of tying up a woman".

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6.

Phantom Lady published her as a backup feature in two issues of Wonder Boy.

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7.

In 1981, Phantom Lady became a recurring guest star of All-Star Squadron, a superhero-team title set on "Earth-2", the locale for DC's World War II-era superheroes, and at a time prior to when she and the other Freedom Fighters were supposed to have left for Earth-X.

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Phantom Lady then appeared with the rest of DC's superheroes in Crisis on Infinite Earths, a story that was intended to eliminate the confusing histories that DC had attached to its characters by retroactively merging the various parallel worlds into one.

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DC retconned the origin of Phantom Lady established in Quality's Police Comics, so that she now belonged to the prestigious Knight family of Opal City, a locale central to DC's Starman line of heroes.

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10.

Phantom Lady's was made an agent of a Cold War-era government intelligence agency called Argent, in which she met and married fellow former-All Star Squadron member Iron Munro .

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11.

Phantom Lady helped her, and soon thereafter she started the Universite Notre Dame Des Ombres in the hopes of making further intelligence contacts and finding her baby, but she was not successful.

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12.

Phantom Lady's possessed a wrist-mounted blaster, and a holographic projector developed by her childhood friend and roommate Sarah that could be used to cast powerful illusions.

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13.

Phantom Lady's joined a new version of the Freedom Fighters in the 1999 JSA series.

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14.

New Phantom Lady was introduced in Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Bludhaven, as one of the metahumans guarding Bludhaven.

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15.

Phantom Lady's appears in the limited series Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters.

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16.

Phantom Lady is murdered on orders of Father Time and replaced by a doppelganger.

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17.

Phantom Lady's reveals that she has a degree in quantum physics and pretends to be a spoiled idiot so she won't end up like other socialites.

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18.

Phantom Lady's was invited by Oracle to join the Birds of Prey, but ended up casually setting fire to her invitation immediately after reading it, stating that she was already on someone else's payroll.

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19.

Phantom Lady's swore to bring the Bender family down and in the present tries to enact this by infiltrating the inner circle of Cyrus and Eli Bender, the heirs to Robert Bender's crime legacy.

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20.

Phantom Lady gives her a special suit and gloves enabling invisibility and shadow manipulation.

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21.

New Phantom Lady is shown in the Elseworlds comic Kingdom Come, who is described in the series' endnotes as a literal phantom of the original version.

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22.

Black's Phantom Lady was an even more undressed version of the Matt Baker character, and a mask and ordinary handgun were added.

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23.

When DC Comics threatened legal action, AC changed their version to "Nightveil", a supernaturally-themed character who was later made a member of Femforce, the first all-female superhero team; the Bill Black version of the Phantom Lady was retained as Nightveil's original superhero identity, under the name "Blue Bulleteer".

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24.

Shadow Phantom Lady is a character seen in Big Bang Comics, all of whose characters are parodies of DC Comics.

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25.

Shadow Phantom Lady is not Veronica but is actually a duplicate created by the projector.

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26.

Phantom Lady's has the power to become solid or intangible at will, and has her own Shadow Ray Projector she can use to blind villains.

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