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Thunder (DC Comics)

Fictional character published by DC Comics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
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Thunder is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Judd Winick and artist Tom Raney in the Modern Age of Comic Books. She is first mentioned in Green Arrow #26 and first appears a month later in Outsiders #1. Anissa is a metahuman and the daughter of superhero Black Lightning who can control her density and create shockwaves, but in recent comics she had a major upgrade in her powers, making her a full-fledged electrokinesis user like her dad.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thunder (DC Comics)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.