Isis (comics)



Isis is a DC Comics super heroine based on an Egyptian Goddess. She first appeared not in the comics but on The Secrets of Isis, a 1975-77 live-action American television show by Filmation that served as the second half of The Shazam!/Isis Hour. This series was adapted into a comic book in 1976. As in the TV series, archaeologist Andrea Thomas finds an amulet which granted her the powers of the goddess Isis, which she uses to fight crime. The comic was cancelled in 1979. (Note that the actual goddess Isis existed as a separate character in the DC universe; presumably she empowered Thomas.)

After that, Isis didn't reappear until the 2006 miniseries 52, where she was reinvented as a slave whom Black Adam rescues, falls in love with, and then receives similar powers to his from an amulet that he obtained. This version of the character has little in common with the original; though she starts idealistic, she is soon killed by Adam's enemies as a way to return him to his status as a DC super villain; since then she has been revived, turned into a menace herself, then killed and raised again.

Not to be confused with the band Isis.


 * Adventurer Archaeologist
 * Amulet of Concentrated Awesome
 * Magical Incantation
 * Nerd Glasses (as Andrea)
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge: Twice.
 * Transformation Sequence