Dolphin (character)

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Dolphin
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Dolphin as depicted in Showcase #79 (December 1968). Art by Jay Scott Pike.
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Showcase #79 (December 1968)
Created by Jay Scott Pike
In-story information
Species
Team affiliations Forgotten Heroes
Black Lantern Corps
Justice League Task Force
Justice League
AbilitiesArtificially adapted for deep subaquatic life: underwater breathing, superhuman strength, speed, durability, stamina, reflexes, resilience to deep water pressures, Aquatic Respiration (originally)
Seachanged atlantean physiology: conventional atlantean adaptions, light manipulation, omnifarious shapeshifting, claw retraction, scale manifestation, humanoid camouflage (current)

Dolphin is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe. [1] Created by writer-artist Jay Scott Pike, she debuted in Showcase #79 (December 1968). [2]

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Creation and publication history

Dolphin was created by Jay Scott Pike; at the time the writer-artist was primarily known for his work on DC's line of romance comics. After debuting in Showcase #79 in December 1968, Dolphin was not seen for nearly a decade before appearing in a cameo in Showcase #100 (May 1978), which linked the character to Aquaman. After another hiatus, Dolphin appeared in a Rip Hunter storyline in Action Comics '552-553 and then DC Comics Presents #78 (January 1995) with a redesigned costume. [3]

Fictional character biography

Dolphin is a girl who was rescued and experimented on by aliens after falling overboard from a cruise ship, gaining fish-like abilities. She is later rescued by sailors, who teach her to speak. [4] [5]

Dolphin meets Aquaman during Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! , and the two later fall in love. After Aquaman's wife Mera returns from exile in the Netherworld dimension, Dolphin enters a relationship with Tempest, and the two eventually have a son named Cerdian. [1]

In Infinite Crisis , Dolphin is killed when the Spectre destroys Atlantis. [6] [7]

In Blackest Night , Dolphin, Tula, and Aquaman are resurrected as Black Lanterns and attack Tempest and Mera. [8] Dolphin battles the Teen Titans before Dawn Granger destroys her with a burst of light. [9]

In DC Rebirth , Dolphin is permanently resurrected and depicted as a mutant Atlantean. [10]

Powers and abilities

Pre-Crisis, Dolphin is a fish-like metahuman who can breathe underwater and is resistant to oceanic pressure. [1] [11] As a Black Lantern, she possesses the conventional powers of a Lantern and vast self-regenerative capabilities. [8] [9]

In DC Rebirth, Dolphin is a natural-born Atlantean with paranatural alterations due to being a mutant. [12] She possesses claws and bioluminescence that can be projected as energy blasts. [10] [13] [14]

Other versions

An alternate universe variant of Dolphin appears in JLA: The Nail as a prisoner of Cadmus Labs. [15]

In other media

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  8. 1 2 Blackest Night #2 August 2009)
  9. 1 2 Blackest Night: Titans #3 (October 2009)
  10. 1 2 Aquaman (vol. 8) #25 (July 2017)
  11. ↑ Aquaman (vol. 5) #12 (September 1995)
  12. ↑ Aquaman (vol. 7) #26 (August 2017)
  13. ↑ Aquaman (vol. 7) #33 (April 2018)
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