Nubia (DC Comics)

Nubia
Nubia on the cover of Nubia & the Amazons #1 (October 2021), art by Alitha Martinez and Laura Martin.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceWonder Woman #204 (January 1973)
Created byRobert Kanigher (writer), Don Heck (artist)
In-story information
SpeciesAmazon
Team affiliationsJustice League
Abilities
  • Super strength, speed, agility, reflexes, senses, stamina, durability, and endurance
  • Superior hand-to-hand combatant
  • Magical weaponry, including a magical sword and armor
  • Paralyzing "Cold Sight"
  • Possesses the ability to open dimensional portals via lion armor
  • Possesses the ability to relieve her body of physical injury and toxins by becoming one with the Earth's soil and then reforming her body whole again
  • Immortality

Nubia is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as an ally of the superhero Wonder Woman. Historically, she is DC Comics' first black female superhero. Originally introduced in 1973 as Wonder Woman's long-lost fraternal twin sister, a former agent of Ares, and the ruler of Slaughter Island, a floating landmass. She is now presented as one of the hero’s oldest and closest friends. Created by Robert Kanigher and Don Heck, Nubia debuted in 1973's Wonder Woman #204 and appeared intermittently throughout Wonder Woman's Bronze Age adventures.

In modern comic stories, Nubia is depicted as an Amazon contemporary of Wonder Woman and the successor to Wonder Woman's mother Hippolyta as queen of the Amazon nation of Themyscira. The character has developed an expanded profile and greater visibility in DC Comics' post-Rebirth continuity, including the limited series Nubia & the Amazons (2021), Trial of the Amazons (2022) and Nubia: Queen of the Amazons (2022). The publisher also commissioned young adult graphic novels featuring Nubia as the central character, including Nubia: Real One (2021) and Diana & Nubia: Princesses of the Amazons (2022).

The distinction of DC's first black woman superhero is also sometimes accorded to the Teen Titan Bumblebee, who debuted in 1976, three years after Nubia's first appearance.

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