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Background: Diana Kane was always an activist, interested in journalism as far back as her high school days. While interviewing a research scientist, she was exposed to some radiation that caused changes in her body. Suddenly she found she grow slightly
bigger, with an increase proportionally to her strength. She kept her powers a secret while she tried to learn to understand them. Then, one day while covering a political rally during college, the senator for New York was kidnapped. Diana pursued the
men responsible on her own, wearing a mask to disguise herself, and was able to rescue the senator. At his suggestion, she decided to take up a side career in crime fighting.
Diana took up the name of Amazon and donned a costume to help further conceal her identity. It wasn't long before she made her first arch-enemy, the roller derby queen during criminal called Madame Mammoth. Alone or with her gang called the Highrollers, Mammoth was often defeated by the heroine. Amazon's path also crossed with other heroes of the New York City area, including the young sorceror known as Mystifier. The two had worked together on a few occasions before the summer for 1986 when he gathered Amazon and six other young heroes to form the team known as the Protectors. Their first mission was to stop an interdimensional invasion by the evil sorceror named Zandorok. Amazon and the Protectors soon ran up against Madame Mammoth who had teamed with seven other super-villains to form the team known as the Octagon. That villain team was short lived as Mammoth and three of the others later split off to become the Evil Elite. Diana lost her boosted strength and growth powers during an invasion lead by the last member of an alien race known as the Destroyers. His mighty Omega-Energy stripped her of the powers that radiation had first given her. Deciding she had nothing to offer the Protectors, she left the team. (continued after "then" stats...) |
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Background (continued): But, as she was heading to Boston to visit some old college friends, she was spotted by her old enemy and captured. Mammoth had Doctor Delirium brainwash the young woman while Mammoth herself
found a way to augment the woman's strength through chemical means. When all was ready, the villains used her to lead them to the rest of the Protectors in hopes of defeating the heroes who had previously defeated them. The plan failed.
Diana's memory was restored after being in contact with the gemstone belonging to the former heroine Star Light. When the Protectors were able to return the stone back to Star Light's father - the hero known as Space Lord, he rewarded Diana by presenting her with a battle staff equipped with a fragment of the gem on the end along with a revised costume. This combined with some training with the man known as Karate Master, Diana became Amazon once more.
Diana became romantically involved with Stephen Brandon (Tigerman II) after the two learned each other's secret identities while working on a case together. Stephen was instrumental in getting Diana and some of her friends from the Protectors into the ranks of the Justice Gang when the Protectors disbanded in 1999. She was very pleased to join the esteemed group. Motivation: Amazon is a true fighter in every sense of the word. She won't give up on a cause if it something she believes in. Even when she gave up on herself when she lost her powers, fate had other plans for her. She truly feels she is destined to be a super-hero and takes that task very seriously. |
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