Fury
Created by Roy Thomas and Brian Murray
+ History
Some text excerpted from Who's Who Update '87
Helena Kosmatos was a young Greek whose father was killed in 1940 by Italian fascists who had invaded Greece in the following year.
One evening in 1941 in her home in Athens, fifteen-year-old Helena angrily accused her brother Michael of collaboarating first with the Italians and then with the Germans. When Helena produced evidence supporting her charges, her distraught mother suffered a fatal heart attack. When Helena accused Michael of causing their mother's death, he fled.
Helena was then herself pursued by German soldiers and ran to the Areopagus ("Hill of Ares") where she stamped her foot in rage while cursing her brother. By doing so, Helena unwittingly called upon the three Furies (also called the Erinyes or Eumenides) of ancient myth, deities who mercilessly avenged crimes. One of them, Tisiphone the Blood Avenger, asked Helena if she wanted to kill her brtother. When Helena said yes, Tisiphone touched her with her scythe, and endowed her with some of her godlike powers.
Helena found herself back on the hill, clad in armor. As Fury she overcame the Nazi soldiers and found her brother piloting a boat carrying Nazi agents. She killed him then reverted back to her normal form. She drifted in the Aegean Sea until she was rescued by Johnny Chambers. He took her to America, where she went to live with her uncle and aunt in Miami. (Secret Origins #12)
At first Helena thought she had dreamt her meeting with the Furies. But she became Fury again in April 1942 and helped the All-Star Squadron battle Axis Amerika. In fact, Tisiphone's rage caused Helena to kill one of Axis' members, Fledermaus. At seventeen, Helena joined the Squadron as one of the new "Young All-Stars." (Young All-Stars #1-6)
After Helena's next violent transformation, Tisiphone's activities drew the attention of her sisters, the Eumenides. These Furies reclaimed Tisiphone's powers, but soon all three agreed to grant Helena their powers. Their only restriction was that Helena must remain a virgin. (#12, 14, 20) During her time with the All-Stars, Helena struck up a romantic relationship with Iron Munro, but the two of them abstained from sex.
Mysterious Years
Fury's post-war activities are a mystery. Over the years, Helena had come to idolize Queen Hippolyta (Wonder Woman). It went so far that Helena became delusional that Hippolyta was her real mother. (Legends of the DCU #31) Decades later, Helena became pregnant by an unknown man and bore a daughter. She named the girl Lyta, after Wonder Woman. Lyta was left in the care of another mentor, Joan Dale (Miss America) and her husband Derek Trevor. They raised Lyta as their own daughter and never reveal her true parentage. Lyta was born a methuman and later joined Infinity Inc. as Fury II. (Infinity Inc. #48)
Helena herself slipped into obscurity until very recently. When she reappeared in the nation of New Vladonia, Helena attacked Wonder Woman (Hippolyta's daughter, Diana) at the behest of her lover, Alcmaeon. Fury still harbored delusions that Hippolyta was the reincarnation of her biological mother. Now in her eighties, Helena revealed that she resides in a convalescent home, and retained her youth only when using her powers. At the conclusion of this case, Fury was taken by Diana to live on Themyscira. (Legends of the DCU #30-32)
Even after relocating to Themyscira, Fury's mental problems continued. Once again, she attacked Diana and her sister Donna during the a time when civil ware was brewing among the Amazons. This war was instigated by Ariadne (Hippolyta's sister's killer), whom Fury ultimately killed. (Wonder Woman v.2 #168-169)
After the chaos wrought by Alexander Luthor, the Amazons chose to leave Earth for places unknown, and Helena went with them. (Wonder Woman #224)
Lyta Trevor has since perished alongside her husband, Hector Hall. Their souls were taken to the land called The Dreaming by their son, Daniel. (JSA #80)
Just before her first appearance, Helena appeared on the movie poster depicting members of the JSA. (Infinity, Inc. #35) This cameo was her actualy first appearance in print. It suggests that perhaps Fury was originally meant to be the post-Crisis replacement for Wonder Woman in the JSA (which ultimately became Miss America).
Fury, along with her fellow Young All-Stars was created by Roy Thomas to fill the "void" left by several pre-Crisis mainstays. Fury (and in part, Miss America and Gudra of Axis Amerika) is a substitute for Wonder Woman.
The identity of Lyta Hall's biological father has never been revealed. Her birth also leaves to question the stipulation that Helena would lose her super-powers if she lost her virginity.
In pre-Crisis continuity, Lyta Trevor was the daughter of the Earth-2 Wonder Woman and she first appeared in Wonder Woman #300. Lyta's post-Crisis history was revealed in Infinity, Inc. #48, after the Crisis wiped out the Golden Age Wonder Woman.
+ Powers
Fury possesses superhuman strength and sleaping abillity. She could run at superhuman speed and wor lightweight bulletproof amror. She could also transform herself into an avatar of Tisiphone the Fury of myth. In this form, she is virtually invulnerable and can fly, and could project magical heat beams from her eyes.
Appearances + References
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Infinity
Inc. #48