Spider-girl Information
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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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.
Pre-Zero Hour biography
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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]
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.
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.
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.
In other media
Spider Girl appears in her Wave identity (with the blue-dyed hair) in the Legion of Super-Heroes animated television series 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.
References
- ^ Adventure Comics #310
- ^ Adventure Comics #323
- ^ Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #54 (1994)
- ^ Legion of Super Heroes episode "Lightning Storm"
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Categories: DC Comics superheroes | DC Comics supervillains | Characters created by Jerry Siegel | Female supervillains
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