So the various DC editors got together and came up with ideas for what the series could be called on top of Black Canary/Oracle. So the idea of teaming the two up was a hard sell, especially with a title as simple as Gorfinkel's original idea, just Black Canary/Oracle. However, Batgirl had never had her own solo ongoing series and Oracle DEFINITELY hadn't had her own series and Dinah was coming off of canceled series and, you know, sleeping with The Ray.
His idea was to pair her with Barbara Gordon, who had become a popular supporting character in the Batman series of books under her new identity of Oracle, the computer genius. She made a few other guest appearances throughout 1995, but Jordan Gorfinkel, who had been the assistant editor on Dinah's ongoing series, wanted to bring her back. She no longer had her own comic book, she wasn't a supporting character in Green Arrow's comic book and she had now slept with a teenager (Ray was at least 18, but I don't believe he was 19 yet). This was definitely rock bottom for Dinah.
Wright was Grell's former wife (and had written a bunch of Warlord issues during Grell's run on that series), so she was very familiar with Grell's take on Dinah. She proved to be SO popular that DC decided to give her her own feature in Action Comics Weekly by Sharon Wright, Randy DuBurke and Pablo Marcos. However, The Longbow Hunters launched a new Green Arrow series and Dinah was a major player in the critical hit and Grell used her a lot better in the ongoing series. Her torture was really only there to drive Oliver Queen to killing the bad guys who were torturing her. In the otherwise acclaimed miniseries, The Longbow Hunters, Mike Grell basically just has Dinah as a damsel in distress in the story, being tortured to the point where she could no longer have a child (this was later used to explain why she lost her "Canary Cry" power, as Grell was not interested in superpowers in the series). Today, we go back to December 1995 for the debut of the Birds of Prey as Black Canary got back from the scrap heap.īlack Canary had a very strange arc as a character in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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