Lady Lark, later named Skylark, is a character in the Marvel Comics series Squadron Supreme and hails from Earth-712. She is based on Black Canary and later on Hawkgirl in DC Comics.
| Lady Lark | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Avengers #85 (Feb 1971) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas and John Buscema |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Linda Lewis |
| Team affiliations | Squadron Supreme |
| Notable aliases | Skylark |
| Abilities | sonic cry and wears a harness and wings which allows her to fly. |
| Marvel Comics Alternate Universes | |
| Marvel stories take place primarily in a mainstream continuity called the Marvel Universe. Some stories are set in various parallel, or alternate, realities, called the Marvel Multiverse.
The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe: Alternate Worlds 2005 designates the mainstream continuity as "Earth-616", and assigns another Earth-numbers to each specific alternate reality. In this article the following characters, or teams, and realities are referred to: |
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| Character/Team | Universe |
| Lady Lark | Earth-712 |
Contents |
Lady Lark first appeared in Avengers #85 (February 1971), and was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.
The character subsequently appears in The Avengers #141-142 (November-December 1975), #144 (February 1976), 147-149 (May-July 1976), Thor #280 (February 1979), The Defenders #112-114 (October-December 1982), Squadron Supreme #1-6 (September 1985-February 1986), #12 (August 1986), Quasar #13-17 (August-December 1990), #19 (February 1991), #27 (October 1991).
Lady Lark appeared as part of the "Squadron Supreme" entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #12.
Lady Lark, later named Skylark, is Linda Lewis from Franklintown, New Babylon (a southern U.S. State in the Squadron's reality). She was a singer before an enemy of the Squadron Supreme, Doctor Decibel, surgically implanted synthetic vocal cords into her throat, giving her the ability to generate a "sonic cry" which could incapacitate opponents. A reluctant hero at best, Linda often wished to return to her singing career.
She often partnered in crime-fighting, and later romantically, with the character Golden Archer (mirroring the relationship between the modern Black Canary and Green Arrow); however, she refused his marriage proposal. The Archer then used a mind-altering device to literally change her mind, but this had the unintended side effect of altering her personality to an air-headed, vapid persona that put her feelings for the Archer above all other priorities. This led to the two of them leaving the Squadron Supreme for a time.
When the Archer died under his later identity of the Black Archer, Lady Lark seemed to slowly shake off the effects of the mental modification, and returned to active status with the Squadron. Feeling she needed to increase her abilities to stand beside teammates that she perceived as more powerful, she began using the artificial wings that once belonged to deceased teammate Blue Eagle to gain the power of flight, and renamed herself Skylark. With this new ability came greater confidence, and Skylark became far more aggressive in combat than she had been as Lady Lark.
After returning to her native dimension with the team, she was injured in reentry and was remanded to hospital care.
We have seen a possible future version of Lady Lark in the Supreme Power: Hyperion mini-series.