Sandra Knight (DC)

Sandra Knight is a female comic superhero who features in DC Comics.

Biography

Origin

Sandra Knight

Post-Crisis

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Sandra Knight.

She was noted to be the cousin of Ted Knight with the two being close. (Starman Secret Files v1 #1)

Sandra came to confide in her cousin Ted about her friend a professor who had created a black light ray which she intended to use to become a superhero. She came to introduce him to Professor Davis so that the two could work together in harnessing light energy. (Starman Secret Files v1 #1)

During this time, she became involved with Iron Munro who did not want to get married as he did not wish to settle down at the time. By this point, Sandra Knight was pregnant with his child and she became despondent over being an unwed single mother. Aiding her at the time was Al Pratt who offered his own name as a contact as she went to the home for unwed mothers. The nurse there mistakenly believed Pratt was the father to the child who was taken in by the home where he was given the name of Walter Pratt as Sandra gave her son away for adoption. (Manhunter v3 #23)

After the war, she came to be an agent for the Office of Strategic Services and came to work for the division known as Argent. In this time, she was re-united with Iron Munro when the agency paired the two agents together. They took part in several missions where they became lovers with them getting married in Monaco with their relationship being filled with them quarrelling. The two were then deployed to battle Baron Blitzkrieg who had escaped the fall of Germany and had begun to work with the Soviet Union. During one mission, Phantom Lady was captured by the Baron who revealed that she was pregnant with Arn Munro's child. She was a captive for months where she gave birth to the child that was taken from her whilst she was recovered. (Damage v1 #11)

Overview

Personality and attributes

After becoming a hero, she came to take the name of Phantom Lady for herself. (Police Comics v1 #1)

Sandra Knight was noted for being the debutante daughter of Senator Henry Knight. (Police Comics v1 #1)

Her cousin was Ted Knight with the two being close. (Starman Secret Files v1 #1)

She came to be romantically involved with Iron Munro though he did not wish to get married and settle. Their time together though had left her pregnant though the father was unaware of this fact. Sandra came to struggle with being a single unwed mother and ultimately decided to put her newborn son up for adoption. Due to the scandalous nature of the incident, her friend Al Pratt decided to put his own name down as the father leading to the boy being known as Walter Pratt. (Manhunter v3 #23)

Powers and abilities

As Phantom Lady, she was armed with a blacklight lantern. The black lantern was able to envelop targets in a cone of darkness thus blinding them as a result. (Police Comics v1 #1)

She was a capable driver where she drove a black roadster. The rear lights were able to project cones of pitch darkness to prevent pursuers from following her. (Police Comics v1 #1)

Notes

• The Sandra Knight Phantom Lady was created by Arthur F. Peddy where she made her first appearance in Police Comics v1 #1 (August, 1941) by Quality Comics.

Appearances

• Police Comics v1: (1941)
• All-Star Squadron v1:
• Starman Secret Files v1:
• Damage v1:
• Manhunter v3:

External Links

• DC Database Entry

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