Godiva (Dorcas Leigh), Heroine of England

First appearance: Super Friends #7 (October 1977):







Godiva was also included in the Justice League International at he beginning of the New 52



from History of the DC Universe (1986)

Yeah...I never quite worked out why our only hero was apparently L'Oreal Lass...

tony ingram wrote:Yeah...I never quite worked out why our only hero was apparently L'Oreal Lass...

What do you mean "only"?    

The Global Guardians normally had just one hero/heroine per a country, so what did you expect: two for England?  Besides, there were other British heroes that DC created, such as Knight and Squire, The Hood, The Bowman of Britain, Lionheart, Beefeater, and I'm sure there must be others I'm not recalling off the top of my head.
(Would The Demon count since he was created by Merlin? Silent Knight?)

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Yeah...I never quite worked out why our only hero was apparently L'Oreal Lass...

What do you mean "only"?    

The Global Guardians normally had just one hero/heroine per a country, so what did you expect: two for England?  Besides, there were other British heroes that DC created, such as Knight and Squire, The Hood, The Bowman of Britain, Lionheart, Beefeater, and I'm sure there must be others I'm not recalling off the top of my head.
(Would The Demon count since he was created by Merlin? Silent Knight?)

Well, she was the only one around at the time! And I wouldn't really call the Beefeater much of a hero...

tony ingram wrote:

MajorHoy wrote: . . . there were other British heroes that DC created, such as Knight and Squire, The Hood, The Bowman of Britain, Lionheart, Beefeater, and I'm sure there must be others I'm not recalling off the top of my head.
(Would The Demon count since he was created by Merlin? Silent Knight?)

Well, she was the only one around at the time! And I wouldn't really call the Beefeater much of a hero...

Knight and Squire, as well as the Bowman of Britain, were created in the 1950s, so they pre-date Godiva.
Besides, in 1977, how many other heroes did DC have from outside of the U.S. that were active? (Heck, how many active heroes based in Italy did DC have back then?)

By the way, a couple of other British heroes from DC are Beaumont and Sunny Jim (the "Class War") that were in Superman #689 (for just one page) and also, I believe, appeared in The Shade #11.