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Van-Zee

Van-Zee

Van-Zee was Superman's cousin who lived in Kandor and the second Nightwing.

Name:
Van-Zee
Publisher:
Real name:
Van-Zee
Aliases:
  • Nightwing
  • Superman
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
  • Agility
  • Flight
  • Gadgets
  • Heat Vision
  • Ice Breath
  • Invulnerability
  • Levitation
  • Power Suit
  • Size Manipulation
  • Super Hearing
  • Super Smell
  • Super Speed
  • Super Strength
  • Unarmed Combat
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Van-Zee is the son of Nim-Zee (Superman #151), and he was a native born Kandorian and a surviving cousin of Superman in the pre-Crisis history. Van used the enlarging ray of a scientist Zak-Kul to grow to normal size and leave the city. While on Earth he fell in love with Lois Lane but backed out after he realized that his cousin was in love with her. However, he met a earth woman named Sylvia Dewitt who greatly resembled Lois; the two fell in love and married. Van and Sylvia lived on the planet of Venus where the two had children, a son named Lyle and a daughter named Lili. In Kandor, Van was always something of a hero to Kandor and started using the name, costume, and equipment of Nightwing and with his assistant Ak-Var who became the new Flamebird the two battled crime in Kandor as a crime fighting duo. Due to the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Van, his family, and life as Nightwing were erased from DC continuity.

Convergence

Van-Zee is killed during the events of Convergence.

Issues

February 1960

November 1960

January 1961

April 1961

June 1961

August 1961

October 1961

November 1961

January 1963

August 1964

September 1965

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July 1968

September 1971

September 1976

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August 1977

October 1977

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February 1978

April 1978

June 1978

August 1978

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December 1978

February 1979

April 1979

August 1979

October 1979

September 1981

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1941

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1981

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2005

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