Vanessa van Helsing

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Real Name

Vanessa van Helsing

Affiliation

Night Force

Status

Alignment

Neutral

Identity

Public Identity

Citizenship

American

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Hair

Red

Origin

Universe

New Earth

Created by

Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan

First appearance

New Teen Titans #21
(July, 1982)

HistoryEdit

Vanessa van Helsing is the granddaughter of Professor Van Helsing, a famed scholar and vampire hunter from the late 19th century. When Vanessa was thirteen-years-old, she began to develop psychokinetic abilities, which enabled her to perceive elements of the supernatural. These perceptions proved harrowing to Vanessa's psyche and she was placed in the care of the Potomac Psychiatric Hospital in Georgetown, Virginia. Vanessa remained their for seven years until her twenty-first birthday. After which, she was legally released to the custody of Georgetown College professor Donovan Caine. With Caine, Vanessa became one of several members of the "Night Force" -- a team of occult investigators under the guidance of the enigmatic Baron Winters.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

• Psychokinesis: Vanessa van Helsing can mentally perceive aberrations in the veil between the real world and the spirit world. She can also commune with beings that originate from these worlds including assorted demons that stem from any number of nether dimensions, including Hell.

Weaknesses

• Mental Illness
  

NotesEdit

• Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985-86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.

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