Black Canary (Dinah Drake Lance)

History
Dinah was trained by her father since she was a small girl in the martial arts and athletics. Her father dreamed she would follow in his footsteps and join the police, but when her application was rejected he died of a broken heart. Dinah used her inheritance to open a florist shop. She still yearned to fight crime so she became the mysterywoman Black Canary. She pretended to be a criminal who robbed other criminals in order to gain underworld contacts and information. She eventually dropped this ruse and joined the JSA.

When the JSA disbanded she married her detective friend Larry Lance and gave birth to a daughter she named Dinah.

The elder and junior Dinahs worked together in a floral shop until the younger Dinah donned the mantle of Black Canary II and joined the JLA. In Black Canary I's last case she helped the JLA defeat Aquarius, but the battle left Larry Lance dead and Canary infected with cancer.

Black Canary and her daughter spent time at odds, but they had a deathbed reunion when Canary finally succumbed to cancer.

Abilities
Skilled Combatant: Expert hand-to-hand combatant.

Trivia
Originally posed as a criminal to take them down covertly.

Dinah Drake Lance is currently dead,she died of cancer in (Secret Origins # 50).