Queen Bee is the name of six different characters appearing inAmerican comic books published byDC Comics.
Queen Bee has made limited appearances in media outside comics, withMarina Sirtis voicing the character inYoung Justice.
The Zazzala incarnation of Queen Bee first appeared inJustice League of America #23, and was created byGardner Fox andMike Sekowsky.The first Bialyan Queen Bee first appeared inJustice League International #16, and was created byJ.M. DeMatteis andKeith Giffen.The Tazzala incarnation of Queen Bee first appeared inCreature Commandos #1.The Beatriz incarnation of Queen Bee first appeared inJLA: Incarnations #6, and was created byJohn Ostrander andVal Semeiks.
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 Queen Bee (Zazzala) | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Justice League of America #23 (November 1963) |
| Created by | Gardner Fox Mike Sekowsky |
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| Alter ego | Zazzala |
| Place of origin | Korll |
| Team affiliations | Anti-Justice League Injustice Gang Secret Society of Super Villains H.I.V.E. Cabal |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength and speed Venomous darts Ability to release mind-confusing "pollen" powder |
The leader of the hiveworld Korll, Zazzala lives only for the interstellar expansion of her species.[1] Zazzala first appeared inJustice League of America #23 (November 1963).[2] She clashed with the originalJustice League several times during the 1960s and 1970s, but largely disappeared for several decades.[3]
Zazzala reappeared inJLA #34 (October 1999), whenLex Luthor contacts her to join hisInjustice Gang. She agrees, freeingThe General from his asteroid prison in exchange for a percentage of Earth's population to become her drones. She also participates in other battles against the League. Her main effort is concentrated upon the city ofNew York where she forces many of the citizens to craft an 'egg matrix' out of local supplies as a way to secure even more mind-control. She attempts to brainwashGreen Lantern andSteel to serve her using 'hypno-pollen', but both heroes are able to fight it off;Huntress encouraged Green Lantern to resist the pollen, and Steel's suit's data-protection immune systems protected him from the pollen's effects. The Queen displayed impressive physical strength, as she was able to overpower, dominate, and defeatBig Barda in direct combat. Exploiting Queen Bee's inability to see the color red, which many of the superheroes had in their costumes,Wonder Woman and Barda keep the Queen's forces occupied while Steel andPlastic Man get the drop on the Queen, Plastic Man covering Steel to render him virtually invisible to the bees. Utilizing a Boom Tube, technology controlled by Barda, they teleport the Queen and her army back to Korll.
Later, Zazzala and her drones join Luthor's newSecret Society of Super Villains. The Queen becomes the leader of theH.I.V.E., a multi-national criminal enterprise. She appears in the six-partVillains United limited series. A small team of villains, known as theSecret Six, attack her base as part of a war against the Society. Her forces are defeated, the base's prisonersFirestorm andGehenna are freed, and Zazzala is badly wounded.
One Year Later, Zazzala appears inJLA #20, fully healed from her injuries, and attempting to steal amatter transportation device that will allow her to transport her troops to earth. She is defeated byWonder Woman and captured bythe Flash.
In 2016, DC Comics implemented a relaunch of its books called "DC Rebirth", which restored its continuity to a form much as it was prior toThe New 52. Under her re-debut inGail Simone'sPlastic Man mini-series, Queen Bee appears as a member of theCabal, a criminal organization consisting ofPer Degaton,Doctor Psycho,Amazo, andHugo Strange.[4]
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The Brave and the Bold #64 (March 1966) |
| Created by | Bob Haney Win Mortimer |
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| Full name | Marcia Monroe |
| Team affiliations | CYCLOPS |
Marcia Monroe is a spoiled young woman, daughter of a wealthy man, who enjoys risking her life in absurd and pointless situations. Her playgirl attitude creates trouble for the police, who often try to save her from harm during her stunts. One day, she is rescued byBatman, who publicly spanks her. Shortly after this encounter, Marcia starts following Batman on his crime-busting activities and providing unrequested help.[5] Batman and Marcia became an inseparable couple, but one day, she vanished without a trace.
Some time later, Batman saves a girl from being attacked with an arrow and soon realizes that she is Marcia. She had returned toGotham City to ask Batman to return a valuable stolen gem which she had acquired from her father. Batman agrees to help her, but Marcia double-crosses Batman and provided evidence to the police incriminating Batman for the stealing of the gem. It is later revealed that Marcia had joined the crime syndicate CYCLOPS under the codename of Queen Bee. She was the leader of the task force that was in charge of releasingEclipso from his human host, Bruce Gordon.
When Eclipso threatens to murder Batman, Marcia intervenes and saves him. She then reveals that she had been forced to join CYCLOPS to save her father. Marcia helps Batman escape from Eclipso's trap and before parting ways, she gives Batman the real stolen gem and promised to stall Eclipso for a moment until he managed to escape. Batman clears his name and stops Eclipso with Bruce Gordon's help, but Marcia vanished from his life once again.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Justice League International #16 (August 1988) |
| Created by | J.M. DeMatteis Keith Giffen |
An unrelated Queen Bee was introduced inJustice League International #16 (August 1988). She is an ordinary human "femme fatale", who gained control of the country ofBialya by forging an alliance with its former ruler Colonel Rumaan Harjavti, then assassinating him. She solidifies her power by brainwashing theGlobal Guardians into serving her.
Justice League Europe found out that Queen Bee was behind their recent troubles, and that she had aDominator named Doctor working for her. They invaded her palace and came to an agreement; she would cease hostilities against them if they kept quiet about the unethical things she was doing as Queen. They also demanded she sever relations with the Doctor. After they left, she killed the Doctor. The Queen had far-reaching influences, managing to put one of her own operatives in charge of the League via theUnited Nations.
Queen Bee was eventually defeated by the JLE and the Guardians, who learned of her brainwashing plot. She was assassinated by Rumaan Harjavti's brother Sumaan during the events of the JLA/JLEcrossoverBreakdowns (1991).
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Creature Commandos #1 |
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| Alter ego | Tazzala Beatriz |
| Place of origin | Korll |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength and speed Venomous darts Ability to release mind-confusing "pollen" powder |
Queen Bee appeared in the 2000Creature Commandos series. On the otherdimensional world of Terra Arcana, Zazzala's sister Tazzala joinedSimon Magus's Terra Arcana Army with the ultimate goal of conquering Earth. The U.S. Army faction known as the Creature Commandos stopped the invasion plans. Tazzala herself was killed by Simon.[6]
The sister of the second Queen Bee, Beatriz was introduced inJLA: Incarnations #6 (December 2001) as the new ruler of Bialya. She is using humans forged with machinery and passed off as the robotExtremists to police her country. Her fate sinceCaptain Atom'sExtreme Justice team brought an end to these activities is unknown, but she was presumably toppled from power.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | JLA: Incarnations #6 (December 2001) |
| Created by | John Ostrander Val Semeiks |
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| Alter ego | Beatriz |
| Place of origin | Korll |
In "The New 52" (a 2011 reboot of the DC Comics universe), Queen Bee is revamped and renamed theH.I.V.E. Queen. She makes her debut inSuperman (vol. 3) #21 as the leader ofH.I.V.E. She claims to be Brainiac's daughter.[7] She is a member of the Twenty, a group of otherwise ordinary Metropolis citizens who are infected with a virus byBrainiac that grants them each psionic powers. However, her worldview is distorted and she becomes a zealous devotee of the alien.
The first Queen Bee, Zazzala, hasinsect-like superhuman strength and speed, can fire venomous stinger darts from a set of glands on her right wrist, or release mind-confusing "pollen" powder.
Zazzala's sister, Tazzala, presumably had similar abilities.
The Queen Bee of Bialya had no superhuman powers or abilities, aside from her beauty and cunning. Her sister Beatriz was also an ordinary human, but was nowhere as resourceful as her sister.
The sixth Queen has great psionic powers including telepathy, mind control, empathy, illusion generation, telekinesis, and energy manipulation. She also displayed some sort of healing factor, being able to reconstruct her entire body from scratch after she was blasted to pieces by the Psycho Pirate. After being infected with Brainiac's psionic virus, she temporarily gains twelfth-level intellect similar to his.
Lissa Raven appears inAction Comics #42 (November 1941). She is the daughter of a psychologist and was temporarily made evil after his invention malfunctioned.[8]
An alternate Queen Bee appears inBlackhawk #38 (March 1951). Queen Bee was the leader of an organization called "The Golden Swarm". They poisoned prominent townspeople and swayed public opinion in their favor partly by their comely appearance. The Blackhawks defeat the Queen and her henchgirls by scaring them with mice.[9]
Melissa, aka Queen Bee, is a bee-like sorceress and the founder of the Thriae Society sorority at Mystik University. She grows a large following of brainwashed thralls by giving them cocktails that transform them into worker-bee like subjects.
The moniker of H.I.V.E. Queen is used byRose Wilson inDeathstroke: Knights & Dragons: The Movie.
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