Sandra Knight (Earth-X)

In 1956, DC Comics obtained the rights to the Quality Comics characters, which they believed included Phantom Lady, and re-introduced her 17 years later with a group of other former Quality heroes such as the Freedom Fighters in Justice League of America #107 (Oct. 1973).

As was done with many other characters DC acquired from other publishers or that were holdovers from Golden Age titles, the Freedom Fighters were relocated to a parallel world, one called "Earth-X", where Nazi Germany had won World War II. The team was featured in its own series for 15 issues (1976-1978), in which it temporarily left Earth-X for "Earth-1" (where most DC titles are set) and Phantom Lady was given real phantom-like powers.

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 WWII-era superheroes, and at a time prior to when she and the other Freedom Fighters were supposed to have left for Earth-X. 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. This left Phantom Lady's Earth-X days written out of her history, and the Freedom Fighters became a mere splinter group of the All-Star Squadron.

DC also retold the origin of Phantom Lady that had been 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. Her formative story was changed so that she overtook her father's would-be assassins with her fists instead of a newspaper. Lastly, she was given a more active role in the acquisition of her black light ray, which she no longer received from a mere family friend but instead from a scientist named Dr. Abraham Davis, who had escaped from Nazi-controlled Europe. In the retelling, Sandra Knight gave asylum to Davis, setting him up in a laboratory and helping him to complete his invention. Ted Knight, now established as her cousin, also aided Davis and acquired the technology that allowed him to become the first Starman as a result.

The 1994 title Damage establishes the post-WWII history for Phantom Lady. She is made an agent of a Cold War-era government intelligence agency called Argent, in which she meets and marries fellow former-Squadron member Iron Munro (a character introduced in the 1986 series Young All-Stars). The two are paired on several mission and fight a Soviet-backed agent named The Baron, actually the German Baron Blitzkrieg, a foe both had met during WWII. Shortly after becoming pregnant, she is kidnapped by The Baron who steals the fetus from her womb and leaves her for dead. After escaping from Communist Poland she wants out of the spy game and turns to an old friend, Roy Lincoln. He helps back her and soon thereafter she starts the Universite Notre Dame Des Ombres (the University if Our Lady of the Shadows) in the hopes of making further intelligence contacts and finding her baby; unfortunately, she is not successful. Phantom Lady's presence in the U.S. and her work with American Intelligence is kept a secret to most; she never reunites with her husband, and in her old age becomes headmistress of the school she began, now a training center for female spies in Washington, D.C.

In Manhunter #23 (June, 2006), Phantom Lady meets the current Manhunter, Kate Spencer, and it is revealed that she is Spencer's grandmother. Phantom Lady and Iron Munro are revealed to have had a child before their marriage who they gave up for adoption—Walter Pratt, Spencer's father. The Golden Age Atom, Al Pratt, had allowed Phantom Lady to use his contact information so that she could get into a home for unwed mothers, causing the belief that the child was Pratt's son.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

None known.

Abilities

Acrobatics
Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)

Strength level

Above Average: Phantom Lady possessed the strength level of a woman her age, size and weight who engaged in intensive regular exercise.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Black Ray gun

Notes

This version of Sandra Knight (Earth-X), including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the Multiverse in the 1985-86 Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series and is now considered apocryphal.

Retroactively, Sandra Knight has migrated to Earth-X from Earth-Two continuity. It has been established that she is the cousin to Justice Society member Ted Knight, aka Starman.

Trivia

No trivia.

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Sandra Knight (Earth-X)

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