Dinah Drake (Earth-24)

**Dinah Drake** was florist who became a costumed Mystery Woman called **Black Canary** and a member of the Justice Society of America. Dinah sacrifice her life in the line of duty, with her daughter following in her footsteps to become the second Black Canary.

## History

Aspiring to be a police officer, Dinah Drake was trained by her father, Richard Drake, who was a police detective. However, the Gotham City Police Department denied her application. Instead, Drake ran a florist shop and by night, in order to break up street gangs, Dinah Drake became a costumed Mystery Woman called Black Canary. She later joined the Justice Society of America and had a daughter named Dinah Laurel Lance.

During World War II, the Justice Society helped the Allies defeat Per Degaton. Black Canary used her sonic scream, the Canary Cry, to damage Degaton's powerful Spear of Destiny and ultimately defeat him. Some time later, while on a mission to evacuate an apartment on fire, Canary was buried under debris. Wildcat tried to keep her alive until Dr. Midnite arrived. However, she mustered all her remaining strength to make Wildcat promise he would watch over her daughter for her.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Canary Cry:** Dinah was able to emit a sonic scream that comes from her voice. Her cry could produce enough force to launch a fully-grown human and other heavy objects back several feet, kill a human being by causing internal hemorrhaging or snapping their neck at close-range, and easily turn over a moving armored truck.
* **Sound Immunity:** Dinah was immune to her own powers or any meta-human with similar sonic scream-based powers.

### Abilities

* **Peak of Human Physical Condition:** As a trained superhero, Dinah was in top physical condition. Her strength allowed her to take on and swiftly incapacitate much larger adversaries. Her conditioning allowed her to recover from most injuries very quickly, though not superhumanly.
	+ **Acrobatics/Free-running:** Dinah was very nimble, having developed free-running and parkour skills. She could drop from a height of several feet without injuring herself.
	+ **Honed Senses:** Dinah had sharp hearing and sight, as well as keen skills of perception. She was able to pick up an incoming danger and react extremely quickly
* **Keen Intellect/Expert Detective/Expert Tactician:** Dinah was a sharp-witted individual and a highly trained tactician.
* **Master Hand-to-hand Combatant/Martial Artist:** As a highly-skilled vigilante, Dinah was a highly trained hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. In one such sighting, she subdued three much larger men with relative ease. She was also able to defeat several criminals at once with or without weapons.
	+ **Expert Markswoman:** Having been trained to be a police officer, Dinah was very skilled in the use of firearms.
	+ **Master Stick-Fighter:** Dinah's weapon of choice was bo staff, which she used in the field while operating as the Black Canary.
* **Indomitable Will/High Tolerance for Pain:** Dinah was known to have been a very resilient and driven women, almost stubbornly so (a trait she passed onto her daughter). She also had a high tolerance for pain.

## Equipment

* **Black Canary Suit:** Dinah wore a protective suit as Black Canary, as well as a mask to hide her identity from her enemies when she goes out fighting crime.
* **Bo Staff:** Dinah utilized a wooden bo staff while in the field to fight.
* **Guns:** Dinah often uses one or two pistols when operating in the field.

## Trivia

* Unlike most o her counterparts, it is unknown whom Laurel's father was, but it can be assumed that it was a counterpart of Quentin Larry Lance. Similarly, Dinah only had one daughter opposed to two, presumably because of her early demise.