Harbinger (Lyla Michaels) is a fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine created in the early 1980s.
She and her associate, the Monitor, made several short teasing appearances in various DC comic books up until 1985, when the Crisis on Infinite Earths began. Up until Crisis, she and Monitor appeared to be simple, albeit somewhat pompous, weapons brokers. At the time, she was named Lyla Michaels, and served the Monitor as a fairly conventional...
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Harbinger (Lyla Michaels) is a fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine created in the early 1980s.
She and her associate, the Monitor, made several short teasing appearances in various DC comic books up until 1985, when the Crisis on Infinite Earths began. Up until Crisis, she and Monitor appeared to be simple, albeit somewhat pompous, weapons brokers. At the time, she was named Lyla Michaels, and served the Monitor as a fairly conventional secretary.
All that changed in Crisis, where she adopted the name and appearance of Harbinger, revealed her power of splitting into various selves that could reintegrate later, and sent those selves through various points in time and space (across various realities, even), initially to recruit the aid of heroes for the Monitor's fight against his evil twin, the Anti-Monitor. That conflict and its consequences were the core of the Crisis limited series.
She was also a central character in the Millennium crossover, had a couple of spotlights ...
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