What Happened To Everyone Who Used A Lazarus Pit?

9. Black Canary

Birds of Prey #34 Black Canary Dinah Laurel Lance Oracle
DC Comics

Back during 2001’s Birds of Prey #34, Dinah Laurel Lance decided she’d rather die than marry Ra’s al Ghul. And die, she so nearly did.

Turning down The Demon Head’s marriage proposal, she would soon find herself fighting one of The League of Assassin’s most notorious of warriors, Ubu. So bad were Black Canary’s wounds that the ever-wise Oracle and Blue Beetle are forced to admit that Dinah was at the point where not even the world’s best doctors could save her. But what’s that? Oh, it’s a nearby Lazarus Pit, of course.

The one bonus of battling Ra’s al Ghul on his home turf is that there’s always likely to be a Lazarus Pit or two prepped and ready to go. For Dinah, this dip in the Lazarus Pit did far more than just bring her back to life.

Having previously been told she was unable to have children and having lost her metahuman ability of her famed Canary Cry, this soak in the Pit brought back Dinah’s Canary Cry and enabled her to have children once more.

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