THE PHANTOM LADY II (Delilah "Dee" Tyler)
Created By: Len Strazewski & Chuck Austen
First Appearance: Action Comics Weekly #636 (Jan. 1989)
Role: Miss Fanservice, Invisible Girl
Group Affiliations: The Freedom Fighters, The All-Star Squadron
PL 8 (112)
STRENGTH 2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Acrobatics 8 (+12)
Athletics 7 (+9)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 3 (+13)
Deception 3 (+6, +11 Attractive)
Expertise (Spy) 4 (+6)
Insight 2 (+5)
Investigation 3 (+6)
Perception 2 (+5)
Persuasion 2 (+5, +10 Attractive)
Stealth 4 (+8)
Advantages:
Attractive 2, Daze (Deception), Defensive Roll, Grab Finesse, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Trip, Ranged Attack 5
Powers:
"Black Light Projector & Wrist Blaster" (Flaws: Removable) [22]
Illusion (Visual) 8 (16) -- (17)
- AE: Concealment 2 (Visuals) (4)
-- (27 points)
"Savate Master" Strength-Damage +1 [1]
Offense:
Unarmed +13 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Wrist Blaster +10 (+5 Ranged Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +12 (DC 22), Parry +12 (DC 22), Toughness +3 (+4 D.Roll), Fortitude +5, Will +6
Complications:
Relationship (The Freedom Fighters, Sandra Knight)- Dee is a successor to the first Phantom Lady, and a close ally of her old team.
Total: Abilities: 64 / Skills: 40--20 / Advantages: 12 / Powers: 23 / Defenses: 15 (112)
-The second Phantom Lady debuted when Action Comics went weekly in the late '80s, and stuck around for a bit. She was trained by Sandra as a Lady Spy successor, inheriting the costume. Dee Tyler is also a Savate master and uses some gadgetry to help herself out, often working with her roommate Sarah. She appeared in a small handful of books (I suspect her creator Len Strazewski must have written some of them) like the '80s Starman (*checks* OH HEY LOOK AT THAT), The Flash (Nope and YEP) and others, but mainly showed up in Robinson's Starman run, owing to her Golden Age links. She joined the newer Freedom Fighters incarnation in the '90s JSA book, but never had a big role- I really can't find much about the character, as she never really got a starring role anywhere (even a team book).
-So after about fifteen years of nothing, Dee was horribly-murdered in Infinite Crisis along with her pals, run through by Deathstroke's blade after Cheetah had sniffed her invisible self out. My roommate at the time laughed his ASS off, going "Invisibility's her ONLY POWER?" in a funny moment- I mean, in REAL LIFE that's a power countless people wish they'd had (more common amongst younger males, for obvious perverted reasons), but in comics it's pretty low-grade. Though really, it SHOULDN'T be- in Batman: The Animated Series, Bruce is annihilated by a COMMON CRIMINAL who just happens to be wearing a suit that makes him invisible- the inability to see attacks coming (or respond with your own) is an enormous disadvantage in a real fight. As an elite fighter, Dee should really have been top-tier. But since she's basically just the successor of a largely-forgotten Miss Fanservice character, it was unlikely she'd ever get that push.
-Like Sandra Knight, Dee Tyler (wait... "Sandra"... "Dee?" I JUST GOT THAT) isn't bad, but lacks a lot of "oomph", and is only a PL 8 Martial Artist heroine with some good tricks. Turning Invisible gives her a boost to defenses and hitting potential, but at Toughness +4, she'll need something more to go up against someone like Cheetah.