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"Wonder Woman: "The Cheetah's Thought Prisoners"": A judge orders Priscilla Rich to appear before the court. Priscilla's uncle has left her three million dollars but she must appear in court to make arrangements for the transfer of the money. Steve Trevor informs the judge that Priscilla has b

DC Special #3 is an issue of the series DC Special (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1969. It was published on April 13, 1969.

Synopsis for Wonder Woman: "The Cheetah's Thought Prisoners"

A judge orders Priscilla Rich to appear before the court. Priscilla's uncle has left her three million dollars but she must appear in court to make arrangements for the transfer of the money. Steve Trevor informs the judge that Priscilla has been taken to reform island for her crimes as the Cheetah. Steve enlists the help of Baroness Paula Von Gunter to travel to reform island to retrieve Priscilla. Queen Hippolyte agrees to cooperate with the court by turning over the Cheetah. Paula then produces a green headband that she has developed to use as a thought control tool to keep Priscilla from being dominated by her Cheetah identity. Paula uses the headband to control Priscilla as she flies her back for her court appearance. During the flight, the Cheetah obtains the headband and uses it against Paula causing her to jump out of the plane. Wonder Woman happens to be flying nearby and rescues Paula from falling to her death. Wonder Woman then captures Cheetahs airplane and forces it to land. Priscilla is taken into custody, but everyone is unaware that she is still in possession of the thought control headband. Priscilla Rich appears before the court and is ordered to turn over her three million dollar inheritance over to her father since she is still a convicted criminal. Priscillas is furious and vows revenge. She secretly remains in control of Paula Von Gunter and uses her to carry out her master plan. Wonder Woman later receives a call from Etta Candy who reports that the Beta Lamda Sorority house is being attacked by a gang of Cheetahs. Wonder Woman arrives at the scene only to find that the struggle is over and that the Cheetah gang has abducted many of the Lamda girls. The Cheetah then disguises herself as a nightclub dancer named Tigra. She learns about a group of Billionaires that is meeting at a conference and she decides to abduct the rich men with the help of her Cheetah gang which includes newly hypnotized Lamda girls. She intends to hold the rich men for a ransom of 3 million dollars as revenge for the money she was forced to give up. Wonder Woman rushes over to Paulas lab in hopes of finding both her and Priscilla Rich. As she arrives she is quickly subdued by the Priscilla Rich and she is shrunken down to a small size. Steve Trevor then arrives on the scene and shoots the mind controlling headband from Priscillas head. She automatically loses control over Wonder Woman and the rest of the captive Cheetah girls. Priscilla is taken into custody and returned back to Reform Island.

Appearing in Wonder Woman: "The Cheetah's Thought Prisoners"

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  • Judge Strait
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Synopsis for Supergirl: "The Maid of Menace!"

This story is reprinted from Action Comics #304.

A super powered female villain by the name of Black Flame makes an appearance on Earth. She appears to have all of Super Girl's abilities and even appears to control Comet the Super horse. She instructs Comet to destroy Monument Mountain in Gold Stone National Park much to the dismay of Supergirl. Black Flame reveals that she is from the year 4,000 and claims to be a descendant of Supergirl herself. She goes on to reveal that she is a queen of a pirate planet but has chosen to use her super abilities for crime rather than for good. Supergirl is distraught over the news. She decides to travel to the future to learn more about Black Flame. She learns that there is no record of any supervillain by that name and returns back to her time. Supergirl concludes that Black Flame might not be from the future but suspects that she might have originated from the bottle city of Kandor. She travels to Kandor to investigate and learns about a brilliant scientist by the name of Zora. Zora had been a friend of the super criminal Lesla-Lar who was vaporized by criminals who were testing out a disintegration gun. Supergirl finds that Zora is busy working in her lab which eliminates her as being the Black Flame. She concludes that Black Flame did not originate from Kandor. Supergirl then announces that she will use Gold Kryptonite to remove her own superpowers permanently. She reasons that if she is no longer super then she will not have super powered descendants such as the Black Flame. The super villain observes the powerless Supergirl. She then announces that she really is Zora of Kandor. She reveals that she had used a robot to take her place when Supergirl visited Kandor. Zora had escaped the bottle city to assume her identity as the Black Flame to take Supergirls place. She had used a Red Kryptonite cosmic cloud to transform herself to normal size once she escaped Kandor. The enlarging effect is only temporary and Black Flame returns back to her small Kandorian size. Even though she is small, she still retains her superpowers. She supposedly defeats the powerless Supergirl, but she is unaware that Supergirl had faked her exposure to the gold kryptonite. Supergirl reveals that she is still super and had used a fake type of gold Kryptonite to make it appear like she had no super abilities. She then scoops up the tiny Black Flame and incarcerates her in a powder compact that is filled with small grains of real gold Kryptonite. The gold kryptonite grains are enough to rob the Black Flame of her superpowers permanently. Supergirl had noticed that the Black Flame had a dental filling in her mouth when she laughed and surmised that she could not possibly be a super descendant. Super descendants would be invulnerable to drilling so Supergirl surmised that she must be Zora from Kandor. Zora is turned over to Kandor authorities as she vows revenge on Supergirl.


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Appearing in Supergirl: "The Maid of Menace!"

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  • Bal-Korin (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for Black Canary: "Special Delivery Death!"

A pair of thugs named Nifty and Bobo watch as JJ Marvin places a mysterious envelope in his wall safe. Marvin states that he will hold the envelope until the heat cools off. The pair is suspicious of Marvin, they are afraid that he might leave town with the envelope, so they decide to stake out his office. They soon observe private eye Lance Lane enter Marvin's office and decide to stick around. Marvin hands off the envelope to Lane with instructions to meet him at the airport at 5 O'clock and he will give him five thousand dollars. As Lane leaves the office he is trailed by one of the thugs. The second thug Nifty, confronts JJ Marvin in his office and murders him for attempting to double cross them. Lance Lane is then followed as he visits the florist shop where Dinah Drake is working. He attempts to hold a conversation with Drake but she is too busy to chat so Lane decides to leave her alone. As he steps into the sidewalk, he is confronted by the thug that has been following him. He is held at gunpoint as the thug orders him back into the shop. Drake sees what is happening and immediately changes into her Black Canary outfit. She subdues the thug but gets surprised by the first Nifty who also enters the shop. The Canary makes short work out of both of them. Lance Lane grabs their gun and holds them for the police. The police arrive and Lance Lane explains that the thieves were after an envelope given to him by JJ Marvin. The police explain that Marvin has been murdered and that Lance is holding the gun that killed him. The thugs catch on and pretend that they know nothing of Marvin or an envelope. They claim they were simply trying to rob the shop. The police then begin to suspect that Lane is the murderer. The Black Canary meets privately with the police and asks them for a chance to prove Lane's innocence. She lets the thugs overhear that the envelope is being delivered back to Marvin's office. The police then allow the pair of thugs to escape. Later that night the thugs wait in an alley and attack the Black Canary but they are no match for her. She subdues them both and places their unconscious bodies inside Marvin's office. As they come to, Lane uses his ventriloquist voice to make it appear that one of the thugs is talking. The thug named Bobo announces that he has the diamond bracelet that was inside the envelope and that he is taking over. The other thug becomes agitated and announces that it was he that bumped off Marvin as he loses his temper over his Bobo's remark. The police suddenly appear along with the Canary and Lane. They announce that they had staged the scene to get the thugs to confess and to put Lane in the clear at the same time.

Appearing in Black Canary: "Special Delivery Death!"

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Synopsis for "The Girl in the Golden Flower"

This story is reprinted from Strange Adventures #18.

A tiny spore drifts down from the sky and lands in Brad Mulford's backyard garden. Days later, Mulford notices a strange new flower growing amongst the rest of his plants. He attempts to identify it through horticultural books but has no luck. One night Mulford has a dream that he is in a strange land and notices a girl beckoning for help. The girl is being pursued by strange fireballs but the couple finds refuge in a river where the fireballs dare not venture. The girl introduces herself as Flora and Mulford notices that she has purple patches on her skin along with a red streak in her golden hair. Mulford thinks to himself that the girl looks vaguely familiar. He wakes up the next morning and realizes that he had been dreaming. He looks out the window at the strange flower that has been growing in his garden and notices that it has the same strange purple markings as the girl in the dream. After a while Mulford notices that the flower begins to wither and its leaves begin to fall off. The weather then turns bad and brings on a torrential rain as Mulford falls asleep once more. He dreams that he has returned to the same strange land but now he notices huge bursts of raindrops falling. He encounters the strange girl who seems to be passed out in a pool of water but this time she has short hair. Mulford pulls her out of the water and dries her off by building a small fire. Mulford inquires as to why she has short hair and the girl replies that the leaves had started to fall from the flower in his garden. Mulford suddenly wakes up and decides to move the strange flower to another part of the garden. This time the weather turns windy and Mulford wonders if he will have another dream. Sure enough his next dream finds him in the strange land once more struggling to fend off a powerful wind storm. He encounters Flora once more as she fights to survive the wind. He takes her to a shelter behind a rock to protect her. The next morning Mulford wakes up and places the strange flower in a protected hothouse. He realizes that the flower and his dream girl are somehow connected. Throughout the long summer Mulford travels to the strange land in his dreams on a nightly basis. He learns of other worlds from Flora and develops a relationship with her. One autumn day Flora announces that she is dying but that they will meet once more. Mulford wakes up the next morning to find that the flower from space is dead. The doorbell suddenly rings and Mulford finds a beautiful girl standing there as she introduces herself as Fora, a new Astronomy student. The girl remarks that she feels that she knows Mulford and Mulford realizes that Flora had kept her promise that they would meet again.

Appearing in "The Girl in the Golden Flower"

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  • Brad Mulford, astronomer

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Synopsis for Green Lantern: "The Secret Life of Star Sapphire!"

This story is reprinted from Green Lantern (Volume 2) #16.

While out flying in her private jet, Carol Ferris is captured by the Zamarons, alien warrior women who have selected her to become their next queen based on her exact resemblance of their former ruler. Changing her into Star Sapphire, they dispatch her out into Coast City where she is to battle the Green Lantern to prove her worthiness as the Zamaron ruler.

Meanwhile, Hal Jordan and Pieface become worried since Carol has not returned from her flight and so Hal seeks to find her as Green Lantern. He ends up finding her all right, as Star Sapphire, who challenges him. Not realizing who she really is, Hal tries to dismiss her however she starts committing crimes to get his attention. Battling her, she manages to catch him off guard and he ends up being easily defeated.

Feeling she had not totally proved herself to the Zamarons, Star Sapphire requests to attack Green Lantern one more time. This time, Green Lantern is able to best her in combat. Before Green Lantern can do anymore she is teleported away by the Zamarons who find her defeat disgraceful, restore her back to normal, and return Carol to her jet. Out looking for Star Sapphire, Hal manages to find Carol instead who doesn't remember what happened to her. Before returning her home, Green Lantern finds a sapphire with a star symbol etched in it, which he takes for safe keeping.

Appearing in Green Lantern: "The Secret Life of Star Sapphire!"

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  • The Lady Carol (Carol Ferris' Plane)

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