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[[File:Isis comic book No 1.jpg|frame|Issue number one.]]
'''''Isis''''' is a [[DC Comics]] [[Superhero|super heroine]] based on an [[Egyptian Mythology|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 ''[[Captain Marvel|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
After that, Isis didn't reappear until the 2006 miniseries ''[[52]]'', where she was [[Retcon|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 [[Darker and Edgier|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.
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