Spider-Girl (DC Comics)

Spider Girl
Post-Zero Hour version of Spider Girl
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Adventure Comics #310 (July 1963) (Pre Zero Hour - mentioned) Adventure Comics #323 (July 1964) (Pre Zero Hour - full appearance) Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #64 (Post-Zero Hour)
Created by	Jim Tillery Jerry Siegel John Forte
In-story information
Alter ego	Sussa Paka
Species	Metahuman
Place of origin	Earth (31st century)
Team affiliations	Workforce Legion of Super-Villains Legion of Super-Heroes Justice League of Earth
Notable aliases	Wave
Abilities	Super-strong prehensile hair

Spider Girl (Sussa Paka) is a fictional character appearing in books published by DC Comics. The character was first mentioned as a concept in the letters page of Adventure Comics when a fan suggested a character with the power of super-strong prehensile hair.

Spider Girl formally first appeared as a failed Legion of Super-Heroes applicant.

She went on to join Tarik the Mute's underground academy for supervillains and later the Legion of Super-Villains.

During the Five-Year Gap run in Legion of Super-Heroes volume 4 (1989), Paka was written as a half-reformed thief with a crush on Legionnaire Ultra Boy.

She joined the adult Legion as Spider Girl, but when the team was outlawed by the United Planets, they went underground, changing their appearances and codenames, even wearing masks. In this storyline, occurring just prior to the Zero Hour reboot of the titles, Sussa changed her codename to Wave and dyed her hair blue.

Spider Girl's first appearance after the Zero Hour event occurred in Legion of Super-Heroes v.4 #64 as a member of the Workforce. She had a relationship with Ultra Boy while he was also a member of the team. As a result of this she was extremely resentful of Apparition.

What appears to be a revamped version of the pre-Crisis Spider Girl appears in the Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes story beginning in Action Comics #858. In this version, she is a member of the "Justice League of Earth", a group of Earth-born Legion rejects which has seized control of Earth and banished the Legion and other extraterrestrials by spreading lies that Superman was a human that hated all aliens.