Mala (Amazon)
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | All-Star Comics #8 (Dec. 1941-Jan. 1942} |
| Created by | Charles Moulton, Harry G. Peter |
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| Team affiliations | Amazon nation |
| Abilities | superstrength, superspeed, Amazon training |
Mala is a fictional character who first appeared in the DC Comics' universe as one of Wonder Woman's fellow Amazons.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
[edit] Golden/Silver age
Mala was one of the most important Amazons in the Golden Age adventures of Wonder Woman. Mala was with Diana when they discovered Steve Trevor floating in the sea, and they worked together to bring him to shore. Mala was also the last Amazon standing alongside a masked Diana during the contest to determine who would venture into Man's World as the Amazon champion. (All-Star Comics #8; Wonder Woman #1.)
Mala became the head of the Reform Island program for rehabilitating criminals and the criminally insane. She was typically depicted as blonde and wearing a polka dotted dress.
Mala possessed her own plane, the Swan Plane, which was superfast though not as fast as Wonder Woman's invisible plane nor telepathically controlled. Mala was also one of the few Amazons to venture into Man's World, though by accident, when her plane was hijacked by Mimi Mendez {Sensation Comics #29).
Mala was skilled enough in the Amazons' advanced science to be trusted by Wonder Woman to work alongside Paula to perfect a device Wonder Woman created to install telepathic controls in the invisible plane (Sensation Comics #24).
Mala was largely forgotten in the Silver Age, although she reappeared in Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #300 in several dream sequences exploring what-if scenarios. In one, Diana was forced to assume the throne of Paradise Island immediately prior to the Contest, and Mala won to become Wonder Woman.
[edit] Modern age
Due to the 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline, the previously established history of almost all DC Comics characters ceased to exist and was re-started. In Mala's case, she was re-introduced in Wonder Woman Vol. 2, #90. A close friend of Diana's, Mala participated in the original Contest to become Wonder Woman (losing to Diana) as well as in the second Contest (which was lost to Artemis). Both times Mala was a finalist showing she is a very capable warrior.
