Intelligent, confident, self-assured and able to manipulate reality itself with her vast magical abilities, Zatanna balances her time as a skilled stage illusionist with battling the dark arts alongside some of the world’s greatest super heroes. By reciting spells backwards, she can invoke anything her imagination wills, and her inventiveness often allows her to find creative solutions to even the trickiest of problems.
However, Zatanna is no stranger to the dangers of magic, having lost her father to the dark arts. Although this left her without a mentor and relatively inexperienced in the world of magic, it only furthered her resolve to stand against anyone seeking to use magic at the cost of others. But if Zatanna hopes to escape her father's fate, she'll have to quickly master her craft before facing down the world's most powerful mystics.
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Character History
Zatanna was created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson, first appearing in Hawkman #4. However, in the rebooted Prime Earth continuity her first appearance as part of the DC Universe is in Peter Milligan and Mikel Janin's New 52 Justice League Dark #1.