| BLACK CANARY II (Dinah Lance) | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Denny O'Neil and Dick Dillin |
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CHRONOLOGY
Black Canary first appeared in Justice League of America #75 (October 1969): "In Each Man There Is a Demon".
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Black Canary in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Black Canary Chronology
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| Justice League of America #220 (November 1983): "The Doppelganger Gambit" [Flashback] |
| Justice League of America #75 (November 1969): "In Each Man There is a Demon" |
| Justice League of America #77 (December 1969): "Snapper Carr - Super-Traitor" |
| Justice League of America #78 (February 1970): "The Coming of the Doomsters" |
| Justice League of America #79 (March 1970): "Come Slowly Death, Come Slyly" |
| Justice League of America #130 (May 1976): "Skyjack at 22,300 Miles" |
| Justice League of America #80 (May 1970): "Night of the Soul-Stealer" |
| Justice League of America #81 (June 1970): "Plague of the Galactic Jest-Master" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #78 (July 1970): "A Kind of Loving, a Way of Death" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #79 (September 1970): "Ulysses Star Is Still Alive" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #199 (August 1970): "Flash?--Death Calling" |
| Brave and the Bold #91 (August-September 1970): "A Cold Corpse for the Collector" |
| Justice League of America #82 (August 1970): "Peril of the Paired Planets" |
| Justice League of America #83 (September 1970): "Where Valor Fails... Will Magic Triumph?" |
| Justice League of America #84 (November 1970): "The Devil in Paradise" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #81 (December 1970): "Death Be My Destiny" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #82 (February-March 1971): "How Do You Fight a Nightmare?" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #204 (March 1971): "The Great Secret Identity Expose" |
| Justice League of America #88 (March 1971): "The Last Survivors of Earth" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #83 (April-May 1971): "And a Child Shall Destroy Them" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #236/2 (April 1971): "The Doomsayer" |
| Justice League of America #89 (May 1971): "The Most Dangerous Dreams of All" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #84 (June-July 1971): "Peril in Plastic" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #86 (October-November 1971): "They Say It'll Kill Me, But They Won't Say When" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #87/2 (December 1971-January 1972): "What Can One Man Do?" |
| Brave and the Bold #100 (February-March 1972): "The Warrior in a Wheel-Chair" |
| Adventure Comics #418/2 (April 1972): [No Title] |
| Adventure Comics #419/2 (May 1972): [No Title] |
| Justice League of America #89 (May 1971): "The Most Dangerous Dreams of All!" |
| Justice League of America #91 (August 1971): "Earth -- The Monster-Maker!" |
| Justice League of America #92 (September 1971): "Solomon Grundy -- The One and Only!" |
| Justice League of America #94 (November 1971): "Where Strikes Demonfang?" |
| Justice League of America #95 (December 1971): "The Private War of Johnny Dune!" |
| Justice League of America #97 (March 1972): "The Day the Earth Screams" |
| Justice League of America #98 (May 1972): "No More Tomorrows" |
| Justice League of America #99 (June 1972): "Seeds of Destruction" |
| Adventure Comics #423 (September 1972): "Treachery" |
| Justice League of America #100 (August 1972): "The Unknown Soldier of Victory" |
| Justice League of America #102 (October 1972): "And One of Us Must Die" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #217/2 (August-September 1972): "The Killing of an Archer" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Flash Vol. 1 #218/2 (October-November 1972): "Green Arrow is Dead" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #219/2 (December 1972-January 1973): "The Fate of an Archer" |
| Action Comics #421/2 (February 1973): "The Headline Maker" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Justice League of America #104 (February 1973): "The Shaggy Man Will Get You if You Don't Watch Out" |
| Brave and the Bold #107 (June-July 1973): "The Three-Million Dollar Sky" |
| Justice League of America #105 (April-May 1973): "Specter in the Shadows" |
| Justice League of America #106 (July-August 1973): "Wolf in the Fold" |
| Action Comics #426/2 (August 1973): "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Action Comics #428/2 (October 1973): "The Plot to Kill Black Canary" |
| Justice League of America #107 (September-October 1973): "Crisis on Earth-X" |
| Justice League of America #109 (January-February 1974): "The Doom of the Divided Man" |
| Justice League of America #110 (March-April 1974): "The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus" |
| Action Comics #434/2 (April 1974): "Zatanna's Double-Identity" |
| Action Comics #436/2 (June 1974): "Young Man With a Drum" |
| Justice League of America #112 (July-August 1974): "War with the One-Man Justice League" |
| Justice League of America #114 (November-December 1974): "The Return of Anakronus" |
| Action Comics #440/2 (October 1974): "Little Dog Lost" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Action Comics #441/2 (November 1974): "The Mystery of the Wandering Dog" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #215 (December 1974-January 1975): "Amazon Attack Against Atlantis" |
| Action Comics #443 (January 1975): "At Last! Clark Kent, Super-Hero" |
| Action Comics #444/2 (February 1975): "The Black Canary is Dead" |
| Action Comics #445/2 (March 1975): "Find Black Canary, Dead Or Alive" |
| Action Comics #446/2 (April 1975): "Billion-Dollar Bust" |
| Justice League of America #117 (April 1975): "I Have No Wings and I Must Fly" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #216 (February-March 1975): "Paradise in Peril" |
| Justice League of America #118 (May 1975): "Takeover of the Earth-Masters" |
| Justice League of America #119 (June 1975): "Winner Takes the Earth" |
| Superman Family #171 (June-July 1975): "Cleopatra, Queen of America" |
| Justice League of America #120 (July 1975): "The Parallel Perils of Adam Strange" |
| Justice League of America #121 (August 1975): "The Hero Who Jinxed the Justice League" |
| Action Comics #450/2 (August 1975): "A Gremlin in the Works" |
| Action Comics #451/2 (September 1975): "The Day the Dreaming Dies" |
| Action Comics #452/2 (October 1975): "When Madmen Rule the World" |
| Joker #4 (November-December 1975): "A Gold Star for the Joker" |
| Justice League of America #123 (October 1975): "Where on Earth am I?" |
| Justice League of America #124 (November 1975): "Avenging Ghosts of the Justice Society" |
| Justice League of America #127 (February 1976): "The Command is 'Chaos'" |
| Super-Team Family #3 (February-March 1976): "The End of the World!" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #222 (February-March 1976): "Will the Real Wonder Woman Please Drop Dead" |
| Justice League of America #128 (March 1976): "Death-Visions of the Justice League" |
| Justice League of America #129 (April 1976): "The Earth Dies Screaming" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #223 (April-May 1976): "Welcome Back to Life, Steve Trevor" |
| Action Comics #456/2 (February 1976): "Bail Out the Nutty Kid" |
| Action Comics #457/2 (March 1976): "Flight of the Nutty Kid" |
| Action Comics #458/2 (April 1976): "Masquerade of the Nutty Kid" |
| Justice League of America #132 (July 1976): "The Beasts Who Fought Like Men" |
| Justice League of America #133 (August 1976): "Missing - One Man of Steel" |
| Detective Comics #464/2 (October 1976): "A Hot Time in Star City Tonight" |
| Detective Comics #468 (March-April 1977): "Battle of the Thinking Machines" |
| Justice League of America #135 (October 1976): "Crisis in Eternity!" |
| DC Super-Stars #10 (December 1976): "The Great Super-Star Game" |
| Justice League of America #139 (February 1977): "The Cosmic Conspiracy Against Adam Strange" |
| DC Special #27 (April-May 1977): "Danger: Dinosaurs At Large" |
| Secret Society of Super-Villains #6 (March-April 1977): [No Title] |
| Justice League of America #139/2 (February 1977): "The Ice Age Cometh" |
| Justice League of America #140 (March 1977): "No Man Escapes the Manhunter" |
| Justice League of America #141 (April 1977): "No World Escapes the Manhunters" |
| Justice League of America #142 (May 1977): "Return from Forever" |
| World's Finest Comics #244/2 (April-May 1977): "Rainbows of Doom" |
| Justice League of America #143 (June 1977): "A Tale of Two Satellites" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #93 (February-March 1977): "War Against the World-Builders" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #94 (April-May 1977): "Lure For an Assassin" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #95 (June-July 1977): "Terminal for a Tragedy" |
| Justice League of America #145 (August 1977): "The Carnival of Souls" |
| Justice League of America #146 (September 1977): "Inner Mission" |
| Justice League of America #147 (October 1977): "Crisis in the 30th Century!" |
| Justice League of America #148 (November 1977): "Crisis in Triplicate!" |
| World's Finest Comics #245/2 (June-July 1977): "The Man-Bear Stalks at Midnight" [As Dinah Lance] |
| World's Finest Comics #245/3 (June-July 1977): "Hospital of Fear" |
| World's Finest Comics #246/2 (August-September 1977): "Wulf Hunt" |
| World's Finest Comics #247/2 (October-November 1977): "Requiem of Rage" |
| World's Finest Comics #247/3 (October-November 1977): "Isle of Hate, Island of Dreams" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #96 (August-September 1977): "How Can an Immortal Die?" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #97 (October 1977): "The Mystery of the Mocker" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #98 (November 1977): "Listen To the Mocking Bird" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #99 (December 1977): "We Are On the Edge of the Ultimate Ending" |
| Justice League of America #150 (January 1978): "The Key - or Not the Key" |
| World's Finest Comics #248/2 (December 1977-January 1978): "Hellgrammite is His Name, Rebirth is His Game" |
| World's Finest Comics #249/2 (February-March 1978): "Will the Costume Make the Hero?" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #100/2 (January 1978): "Beware the Blazing Inferno" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #101 (February 1978): "The Big Braintrust Boom" |
| Justice League of America #151 (February 1978): "The Unluckiest League of All" |
| Justice League of America #153 (April 1978): "Earth's First and Last Super-Hero" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #102 (March 1978): "Sign Up and See the Universe" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #103 (April 1978): "Earth-Asylum for an Alien" [As Dinah Lance] |
| World's Finest Comics #250 (April-May 1978): "The Reality War" |
| Justice League of America #154 (May 1978): "I'll Kill You in Your Dreams" |
| Action Comics #480 (February 1978): "Amazo's Big Breakthrough" |
| Action Comics #483 (May 1978): "Sleep No More" |
| Brave and the Bold #141 (May-June 1978): "Pay Or Die" |
| Justice League of America #155 (June 1978): "Under the Moons of Earth" |
| Justice League of America #156 (July 1978): "The Fiend with Five Faces" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #104 (May 1978): "Proof of the Peril" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #105 (June 1978): "Thunder Doom" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #106 (July 1978): "Panic In High Places and Low" |
| World's Finest Comics #251/2 (June-July 1978): "The Vertigo Version" |
| Justice League of America #157 (August 1978): "Till Doom Do Us Part" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #107 (August 1978): "The Man Who Murdered Green Lantern" |
| World's Finest Comics #252/2 (August-September 1978): "Blades and Illusions" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #108 (September 1978): "The Third Identity of Replikon" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #109 (October 1978): "Assault on Replikon" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #110 (November 1978): "Brand of Power" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Justice League of America #159 (October 1978): "Crisis from Yesterday" |
| Justice League of America #160 (November 1978): "Crisis from Tomorrow" |
| Justice League of America #210 (January 1983): "When a World Dies Screaming" [Flashback story] |
| Justice League of America #211 (February 1983): "The Devil's Bargain" [Flashback story] |
| Justice League of America #212 (March 1983): "War in Space!" [Flashback story] |
| World's Finest Comics #253/2 (October-November 1978): "I Die Screaming" |
| World's Finest Comics #254/2 (December 1978-January 1979): "Primeval Scream" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #113 (February 1979): "That They May Fear No More" |
| World's Finest Comics #255/2 (February-March 1979): "Nothing But a Man" |
| DC Comics Presents #7 (March 1979): "The Paralyzed Planet Peril" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #114 (March 1979): "The Crimes of the Crumbler" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #115 (April 1979): "The Vengeance of the Crumbler" |
| Justice League of America #161 (December 1978): "The Reverse Spells of Zatanna's Magic-cigaM" |
| Justice League of America #163 (February 1979): "Concert of the Damned" |
| Justice League of America #164 (March 1979): "Murder by Melody" |
| Justice League of America #165 (April 1979): "A Mother of Magic" |
| Justice League of America #166 (May 1979): "The Long Way Home" |
| Justice League of America #167 (June 1979): "The League That Defeated Itself" |
| Justice League of America #168 (July 1979): "The Last Great Switcheroo" |
| World's Finest Comics #256/3 (April-May 1979): "The Night the Cry Failed" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #116 (May 1979): "My Ring, My Enemy" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #117 (June 1979): "Sight of the First and Second Kinds" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #119 (August 1979): "The Gravity Connection" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Justice League of America #170 (September 1979): "While a World Lies Burning" |
| World's Finest Comics #259/2 (October-November 1979): "Stakeout Earth" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #120 (September 1979): "Double Danger, Certain Death" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #121 (October 1979): "The Steel Vengeance" |
| Adventure Comics #466/3 (November-December 1979): "The Defeat of the Justice Society" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #122 (November 1979): "With These Rings" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Justice League of America #174 (January 1980): "A Plague of Monsters" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Justice League of America #177 (April 1980): "The Graveyard Gambit" |
| Justice League of America #178 (May 1980): "The Chess-Master of Mars" |
| World's Finest Comics #261/2 (February-March 1980): "The Relativity of Auntie Gravity" |
| World's Finest Comics #262/2 (April-May 1980): "Gravitational Boom-A-Rang" |
| Justice League of America #179 (June 1980): "The Siren Song of the Satin Satan" |
| Justice League of America #180 (July 1980): "A Beautiful Evil" |
| World's Finest Comics #263/2 (June-July 1980): "Hell's Acre Savior" |
| Justice League of America #181 (August 1980): "The Stellar Crimes of Star-Tsar" |
| Brave and the Bold #166 (September 1980): "Requiem for Four Canaries" |
| Justice League of America #182 (September 1980): "Reprise" |
| Justice League of America #183 (October 1980): "Crisis on New Genesis, or Where Have All the New Gods Gone?" |
| World's Finest Comics #265/2 (October-November 1980): "One Red Rose For Never" [As Dinah Lance] |
| World's Finest Comics #266/2 (December 1980-January 1981): "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Justice League of America #186 (January 1981): "Who Can Stop the Shaggy Man?" |
| DC Comics Presents #30 (February 1981): "A Dream of Demons" |
| World's Finest Comics #267/2 (February-March 1981): "With This Gun, I Thee Slay" |
| Justice League of America #188/2 (March 1981): "The Miracle at 22,300 Miles" |
| Justice League of America #189 (April 1981): "The Return of the Starfish Conqueror" |
| Justice League of America #190 (May 1981): "Our Friends, Our Enemies" |
| Justice League of America #191 (June 1981): "The Key Crisis of the One-Man Justice League" |
| Justice League of America #194 (September 1981): "Destiny is a Stacked Deck" |
| World's Finest Comics #274/2 (December 1981): "The Archer or the Man?" |
| World's Finest Comics #275/2 (January 1982): "Archer in a Cage" |
| World's Finest Comics #277/2 (March 1982): "Green Arrow Sought For Questioning in Murder" |
| World's Finest Comics #278/2 (April 1982): "The Archer and the Assassin" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Justice League of America #195 (October 1981): "Targets on Two Worlds" |
| Justice League of America #196 (November 1981): "Countdown to Crisis" |
| Justice League of America #197 (December 1981): "Crisis in Limbo" |
| DC Comics Presents #43 (March 1982): "In Final Battle" |
| Justice League of America #200 (March 1982): "A League Divided" |
| Phantom Zone #2 (February 1982): "Earth Under Siege" [Behind the Scenes] |
| Justice League of America #201 (April 1982): "A Hero for All Seasons" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #291 (May 1982): "Judgment in Infinity" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #292 (June 1982): "Seven Against Oblivion" |
| Justice League of America #202 (May 1982): "Star Fall" |
| Justice League of America #204 (July 1982): "The Cut of the Cards" |
| Justice League of America #205 (August 1982): "The Final Hand!" |
| DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #23 (July 1982): "The Green Arrow Scrapbooks" |
| Action Comics #535/2 (September 1982): "The Saucerer's Apprentice" |
| World's Finest Comics #282/2 (August 1982): [No Title] |
| World's Finest Comics #283/3 (September 1982): "Mightier Than the Sling" |
| Justice League of America #209 (December 1982): "Crisis on Earth Prime, Book Five: Let Old Acquaintances Be Forgot..." |
| DC Comics Presents #54 (February 1983): "The Price of Progress" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #300 (February 1983): "Beautiful Dreamer, Death Unto Thee" |
| Green Arrow #1 (May 1983): "All My Sins Remembered" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Green Arrow #2 (June 1983): "A Slight Case of Vertigo" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Green Arrow #4 (August 1983): "Showdown at Sea" |
| Justice League of America #213 (April 1983): "Into the Microcosmos" |
| Justice League of America #214 (May 1983): "Into the 'Microcosmos' Part Two: The Siren Sisterhood" |
| Justice League of America #215 (June 1983): "Into the Microcosmos: The Bigger They Are..." |
| Justice League of America #216 (July 1983): "Into the Microcosmos - Conclusion: The Choice" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #387 (September 1983): "The Conqueror from the Past" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #308 (October 1983): "Heritage" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #309 (November 1983): "The Black Canary is Dead" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #310 (December 1983): "All's Fair" |
| Batman and the Outsiders #1 (August 1983): "Wars Ended... Wars Begun!" |
| Justice League of America Annual #1 (1983): [No Title] |
| Justice League of America #218 (September 1983): "The Price of Humanity" |
| Justice League of America #219 (October 1983): "Crisis in the Thunderbolt Dimension" |
| Justice League of America #220 (November 1983): "The Doppelganger Gambit" |
| Justice League of America #224 (March 1984): "The Supremacy Factor" |
| Justice League of America #225 (April 1984): "Let There Be Light!" |
| Justice League of America #226 (May 1984): "Hell on Earth" |
| Justice League of America #227 (June 1984): "Dragon Keep" |
| Justice League of America #228 (July 1984): "War - of the World?" |
| Justice League of America #229 (August 1984): "War of the Worlds, 1984: Part Two" |
| Justice League of America #230 (September 1984): "War of the Worlds, 1984: Part Three - Blessed is the Peacemaker" |
| Justice League of America Annual #2 (1984): "- The End of the Justice League" |
| Detective Comics #549/2 (April 1985): "Night Olympics, Part One" |
| Detective Comics #550/2 (May 1985): "Night Olympics, Part Two" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #188 (May 1985): "Decent Exposure" |
| Red Tornado #1 (July 1985): "Storm Warning" |
| Red Tornado #3 (September 1985): "The Eye of the Storm" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #190 (July 1985): "Time Out of Mind" |
| Detective Comics #551/2 (June 1985): "Sanctuary" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Detective Comics #552/2 (July 1985): "The Huddled Masses" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Detective Comics #553/2 (August 1985): "Crazy from the Heat" |
| Detective Comics #554/2 (September 1985): "The Past is Prologue" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #194 (November 1985): "5" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 (August 1985): "Worlds in Limbo" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #6 (September 1985): "3 Earths! 3 Deaths!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (October 1985): "Beyond the Silent Night" |
| Justice League of America Annual #3 (1985): "Force of Nature" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 (December 1985): "War Zone" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #10 (January 1986): "Death at the Dawn of Time!" |
| Detective Comics #559 (February 1986): "It Takes Two Wings to Fly" |
| Justice League of America #250 (May 1986): "The Return of the Justice League of America" |
| Detective Comics #560/2 (March 1986): "Me a Bad Guy?" |
| Detective Comics #561/2 (April 1986): "In the Grip of Steelclaw" |
| Detective Comics #562/2 (May 1986): "The Criminal Element" |
| Detective Comics #563/2 (June 1986): "Winner and Still Champion" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Detective Comics #564/2 (July 1986): "This Masquerade" |
| Detective Comics #565/2 (August 1986): "Death by Misadventure" |
| Detective Comics #566/2 (September 1986): "Old Enemies Die Hard" [As Dinah Lance] |
| Detective Comics #567/2 (October 1986): "The Face of Barricade" |