Character Profiles - Heroes - Huntress I/Helena Wayne
Real Name: Helena Wayne of Earth-2
Occupation: Lawyer/Hero
Weight: N/A
Height: N/A
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Base Of Operations: Gotham City
Group Affiliations: Infinity, Inc., Justice Society of America
Marital Status: Single
Relatives: Bruce Wayne of Earth-Two (father), Selina Kyle of Earth-Two (mother
First Appearance: All-Star Comics #69 (December 1977)
Created by: Paul Levitz (writer), Joe Staton (artist)
Helena Wayne was born in 1957 to Bruce (Batman) and Selena (Catwoman) Wayne of Gotham City. Helena was raised in a loving family nurtured by ancestral wealth and the rich experiences of her adventurer parents. She was educated at the best of schools and vigorously trained to superb athletic prowess. Helena's education progressed in leaps and bounds, finishing college at 18 years of age. Ultimately, she followed the family tradition and pursued a law degree. Upon completion of law school, she joined the firm of Cranston and Grayson through connections with Richard Grayson, the former ward of Bruce Wayne.
In 1976, Silky Cernak bribed Selena Wayne into donning her Catwoman gear to rob the Gotham Civic Center with fraudulent evidence that the Catwoman had committed murder in the 1950's. During the course of the robbery, the Batman intervened and in the resulting conflict, a stray bullet struck Selena Wayne. Unbalanced from the impact, Catwoman fell several stories to her death. The loss of his wife shattered Wayne, who burned his Batman uniform the night of his wife's death.
Equally traumatized, Helena fashioned a new uniform for herself as well as a set of personal weaponry derived from her parents personal stock. She tracked Cernak, ultimately bringing him to justice. Committed to her pursuit of justice in her new costumed identity, she code-named herself "the Huntress" (DC Super-Stars #17). 
Shortly after his wife's death, Bruce Wayne fell under the sway of the Psycho-Pirate who convinced him to use his office in an attempt to brand the JSA as outlaws. The Huntress followed this case with some interest, observing in the shadows when the JSA finally resolved the case (All-Star Comics #69). She later intervened in a JSA case when Wildcat and the Star Spangled Kid thwarted the Strike Force, a criminal operation financed by the Star Spangled Kid's family fortune (All-Star Comics #70-71). When the Star-Spangled Kid resigned after this case, the Huntress joined the JSA full-time (All-Star Comics #72).
Privately, the Helena Wayne remained an active member of Cranston, Grayson and Wayne. She confronted a number of enemies including the Thinker, Solomon Grundy and the Golden Age Joker (Wonder Woman #281-283). In the early 1980's, she became a police office liaison as a result of her association with companion Harry Sims. She briefly associated herself with the fledgling super-group Infinity Inc. (Infinity Inc. #1-10) but remained a member full-time of the JSA. 
During the Crisis on Infinite Earth’s, the Huntress survived the initial confrontations with the minions of the Anti-Monitor. After the merging of the various parallel earth’s, the Huntress discovered that Helena Wayne's life no longer existed. The graves of her parents had vanished and her life as she remembered it never occurred. Just before the end of the Crisis, the Anti-Monitor's minions attacked once more and in attempting to protect several children, the Huntress was gravely injured. Despite the protection of Robin, the minions closed in and buried the Huntress, Robin and Kole under a mountain of debris, slaying them all. As the "new" universe formed a stable history, the memory of the Huntress and all she had been faded from existence. The current version of the universe no longer remembers the existence of Helena Wayne or the Earth-2 Huntress.
Parts of this bios came from:
The Lair Of The Huntress
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