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Orca (DC Comics)
Orca is the name of two fictional supervillain characters who appear in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly known as one of the adversaries to the superhero Batman. Publication history The Grace Balin incarnation of Orca first appeared in ''Batman'' #579 (July 2000) and was created by Larry Hama and Scott McDaniel. The Dean Toye incarnation of Orca first appeared in ''Aquaman'' (vol. 8) #12 (February 2017), and was created by Dan Abnett and Philippe Briones. Fictional character biography Grace Balin Grace Balin is a marine biologist who is paralyzed in an accident and experiments with orca tissue to regain her mobility, gaining the ability to transform into a monstrous orca hybrid. While battling Batman, she is forced into an underwater cave and begins to revert to normal, forcing Batman to give her a serum to permanently transform her into Orca and prevent her from drowning. In the ''One Year Later'' event, Orca dies under unspecified circumstances. In "DC R ...
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DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, the first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its published stories are set in the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous List of DC Comics characters, culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash (DC Comics character), Flash; as well as famous fictional teams, including the Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Suicide Squad, and the Legion of Superheroes. The universe contains an assortment of well-known supervillains, such as Lex Luthor, the Joker (character), Joker, Darkseid, and the antihero Catwoman. The company has published non-DC Universe-related mater ...
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