| Character Name: | Dolphin |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Debut: | Showcase #79 (December 1968) |
| Creators: | Jay Scott Pike |
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| Alliances: | Forgotten Heroes Black Lantern Corps Justice League Task Force Justice League |
| Powers: | Artificially adapted for deep subaquatic life: underwater breathing, superhuman strength, speed, durability, stamina, reflexes, resilience to deep water pressures, Aquatic Respiration (originally) Seachanged atlantean physiology: conventional atlantean adaptions, light manipulation, omnifarious shapeshifting, claw retraction, scale manifestation, humanoid camouflage (current) |
Dolphin is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe. Created by writer-artist Jay Scott Pike, she debuted in Showcase #79 (December 1968).[1]
Dolphin was created by Jay Scott Pike; at the time the writer-artist was primarily known for his work on DC's line of romance comics. After debuting in Showcase #79 in December 1968, Dolphin was not seen for nearly a decade before appearing in a cameo in Showcase #100 (May 1978), which linked the character to Aquaman. After another hiatus, Dolphin appeared in a Rip Hunter storyline in Action Comics '552-553 and then DC Comics Presents #78 (January 1995) with a redesigned costume.[2]
Dolphin is a girl who was rescued and experimented on by aliens after falling overboard from a cruise ship, gaining fish-like abilities. She is later rescued by sailors, who teach her to speak.[3] [4]
Dolphin meets Aquaman during , and the two later fall in love. After Aquaman's wife Mera returns from exile in the Netherworld dimension, Dolphin enters a relationship with Tempest, and the two eventually have a son named Cerdian.
In Infinite Crisis, Dolphin is killed when the Spectre destroys Atlantis.[5] [6]
In Blackest Night, Dolphin, Tula, and Aquaman are resurrected as Black Lanterns and attack Tempest and Mera.[7] Dolphin battles the Teen Titans before Dawn Granger destroys her with a burst of light.[8]
In DC Rebirth, Dolphin is permanently resurrected and depicted as a mutant Atlantean.[9]
Pre-Crisis, Dolphin is a fish-like metahuman who can breathe underwater and is resistant to oceanic pressure.[10] As a Black Lantern, she possesses the conventional powers of a Lantern and vast self-regenerative capabilities.[7] [8]
In DC Rebirth, Dolphin is a natural-born Atlantean with paranatural alterations due to being a mutant.[11] She possesses claws and bioluminescence that can be projected as energy blasts.[9] [12] [13]
An alternate universe variant of Dolphin appears in as a prisoner of Cadmus Labs.[14]