Little Mermaid (comics)
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| Little Mermaid | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Super Friends #9 (June 1977) |
| Created by | (Ulla) E. Nelson Bridwell (script) Ramona Fradon (art) (Unknown) Grant Morrison (script) Ed McGuiness (art) |
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| Alter ego | Ulla Paske Unknown |
| Species | Atlantean |
| Place of origin | Atlantis |
| Team affiliations | (Ulla) Global Guardians (Unknown) Ultramarine Corps |
Little Mermaid is the name of two DC Comics superheroes. They are not related to the character in The Little Mermaid book and movie.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
[edit] Ulla Paske
Little Mermaid's first appearance was in the non-canonical Super Friends series. Ulla Paske is a teenage hero born to a Danish lighthouse keeper and an Atlantean woman. As a member of the Global Guardians, her first mission (in Super Friends #9) is to help Aquaman dismantle a bomb in Atlantis. Later on, she helps Aquaman defeat Sinestro. She helps Superman find an ancient city that had sunk beneath the ocean. There, she assists in fighting supernatural creatures. Later, she helps Superman and other Guardians battle a large group of evil wizards on Easter Island.
Little Mermaid's first appearance in the canonical DC Universe, with the other members of the Global Guadians, was in DC Comics Presents #46 (June 1982). She later took part in helping the Atlantean heroes in the Crisis on Infinite Earths cross-over.
Post Crisis, Little Mermaid and the Guardians appeared in the pages of Justice League International and Justice League Europe. She was one of many Global Guardians brainwashed by the Queen Bee of Bialya.
Little Mermaid's final fate is not clear. She was apparently killed by Jack O'Lantern in Justice League Europe #30 (September 1991. This was not intentional as Jack was shooting at members of the Justice League. She reappears in Justice League Europe #50 (May 1993), claiming that the deceased Little Mermaid was her "evil twin." An evil clone of the Mermaid died in battle with the Justice League in Justice League America #55 (October 1991). Finally, a memorial to the fallen Global Guardians, including one dedicated to the memory of Little Mermaid, appears in Justice League Quarterly #17 (Winter 1994).
Little Mermaid had the ability to turn her legs into fish fins, and breathe underwater for up to thirty hours. She also had the ability to fly.
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A second Little Mermaid appeared in JLA: Classified #2. She is a member of the Ultramarine Corps; her secret identity has not yet been revealed.
