| The Golden Glider | |
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The Golden Glider, center, with The Flash and Ringmaster. Art by Joe Staton and Frank Giacoia. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Flash #250 (June 1977) |
| Created by | Cary Bates Irv Novick |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Lisa Snart |
| Team affiliations | Rogues Black Lantern Corps |
| Notable aliases | Lisa Star, Goldie |
| Abilities | Olympic-level ice skater, skilled inventor of jewel-themed gadgets and weaponry. |
The Golden Glider is a DC Comics supervillain, the sister of Captain Cold and an enemy of The Flash. She first appeared in Flash #250 (June 1977) and was murdered in Flash vol.2 #113 (May 1996). In the time since, her death has been a constant source of grief for her older brother.[1]
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Lisa Snart is a figure skater, known by the alias Lisa Star, who has help in her career from her secret coach and lover, The Top, a foe of Flash Barry Allen who dies from complications of duelling with the scarlet speedster. Furious over his death, Snart vows revenge. She adopts an orange ice-skater's costume, a mask, and ice skates which create their own ice flow, allowing her to effectively skate on air. She also has diamonds and jewels that can be used as explosives or hypnotic devices. The Golden Glider seeks revenge against the Silver Age Flash for several years. She frequently collaborates in her heists with her brother, who is very protective of her.[1]
After the death of Barry Allen, Snart retires from crime (she blames Allen himself for the Top's death, not his successor Wally West). She and her brother embark on a career as mercenaries, forming the Golden Snowball Recovery Company.
Eventually she returns to crime, with a series of partners, all code-named "Chillblaine", whom she supplies with a replica of her brother's cold gun. The last of these kills Snart before holding Keystone for ransom. Chillblaine is then himself killed by Captain Cold in retaliation.[1]
In Blackest Night #1, she is reanimated as a member of the Black Lantern Corps. She and her fellow Black Lantern Rogues attack Iron Heights Penitentiary.[2]
The Golden Glider is an Olympic level figure skater. Thanks to a pair of experimental skates that create their own ice, she is able to skate on any surface, including mid-air. She invented or acquired (depending on the item) a number of jewel-themed gadgets and weapons, such as poisoned rings or hypnosis jewels, and used these to great effect in her crusade against the Flash.[1]
Glider and one of her Chillblaines are features as one of the villains draining Wally of his speed. Despite being slowed, Wally defeats the pair and leaves them for the police.[3]
In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Lisa Snart and her brother, Leonard were being brutally beaten by their own father. Later, Lisa killed her father with a gunshot and was arrested for the crime.[4] Lisa is taken to Iron Heights and is then kidnapped by the Rogues. Citizen Cold arrives to try to rescue her, but finds she has been killed by the Rogues member Fallout.[5]
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