Helena Bertinelli

Huntress/Helena Bertinelli dedicated fan blog. Welcome to my blog! I actually know enough about Helena Bertinelli to be considered an expert. She's my favourite character across all media and the one character I love the most. So here is where I'll be...

[purpleladyofthenight]

If you were a complete beginner, but very enthusiastic reader, and if if you had to make a comprehensive, yet curated chronological reading list of HB, what would it be? I'm reading all things batfam and I find that most reading lists out there are very batman-centric. I'd like to get to know the rest of them better individually as well and your expertise is impressive. The huntress seems like one of the coolest female DC heroes but she doesn't seem to be put on the spotlight that often tho

Is this something like what you were looking for?

https://purpleladyofthenight.tumblr.com/post/81863864150/if-youre-new-to-helena-bertinelli

[purpleladyofthenight]

Yes! Thank you, that’s them. Idk why it was so hard to find. It’s one of my fave depictions of Helena. Art wise as well.

Sweet! Yeah, it's pretty difficult to find information on comics, at least old ones, based on my experience too. When I started this blog, it was so difficult to figure out where certain scans I'd see on here came from and it was one of my goals to have the caption of where the scan was from so that people can go find the comic later on.

[purpleladyofthenight]

I’m looking for the name of the artists who did an issue of Batman/Superman where Hel B and Power Girl meet.

I cannot for the life of me find anything about that short story. There’s plenty artwork online but it usually just leads back to this tumblr

If you're talking about Superman/Batman #78, the art for the Power Girl and Huntress (Bertinelli) was done by Brett Booth with colors by Andrew Dalhouse. The Power Girl/Huntress story is called A World of Their Own by the way, in case you need more info on the story.

[purpleladyofthenight]

How would you bring back pre 52 huntress. I have an idea of just having her wake up on the current earth but what would you do with new 52 huntress? I guess one way to do it would be to frame pre 52 for her murder

I have no idea... To be honest, I'm kinda happy with the idea of Helena being gone because she doesn't have to get ruined by DC Comics even more 😅

[purpleladyofthenight]

Hi! How do you think about batgirl and the birds of prey rebirth? I don't like it because the ugly costume, illogical origin story..... It kept me from reading the whole comics. They even change her skin color I can't believe it's true. Her name is hel b but she's definitely another person. I'm so disappointed to read this story when I started to fell in love with this character. btw thanks for your blogs, they introduced hel from a right way. You're a great huntress expert.

Hi! I actually don't like Batgirl and the Birds of Prey. It doesn't feel like the same team and the fact that they kept the woman from Grayson as Huntress is so bad. She's basically a villain and there's nothing likable about her. Helena Bertinelli was a r*pe survivor and a teacher and she became the Huntress to protect people from living the same kind of life she did. And in Grayson she's telling Dick to suck it up when this creepy doctor is assaulting him or whatever and she's in charge of training young girls to become murderers and brainwashing them. She sounds like the kind of person Helena Bertinelli would fight against.

And the costume is so awful. Not everyone who uses some arrow-like weapon needs to look like Green Arrow.

But anyway, I didn't expect much from DC and they let me down as always.

If you wanna get into the character of Helena, there's a ton of material before the New 52 Reboot. I do have a reading list on my page.

https://purpleladyofthenight.tumblr.com/post/81863864150/if-youre-new-to-helena-bertinelli

[purpleladyofthenight]

I have a wired question of a comic that I can’t find that Helena was in but I only know a few panels from it. Helena was rescuing a little girl who had been kidnapped if I’m correct and than have the little girl a teddy bear because she got scared of Helena beating up the bad guys. Does ring any bells? Sorry for the long question.

Is it this one?

It's from Batman Chronicles #14

[purpleladyofthenight]

hi! question! what are some good robin and huntress team ups? like tim and helena?

Hey, so I don't remember specific comics that stood out for me for their relationship. I remember in Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood, everyone in the Batfam was ready to accuse Helena of murder, but Tim was actually on her side and even talked back to Barbara to defend Helena.

I'd say stay away from Robin III: Cry of the Huntress. I know that's probably people's go-to comic for these two because it's a series about Tim and Helena. I didn't like how Helena was portrayed in it, if I remember correctly. She was always in need of Tim to save her. It was very odd and sexist almost.

They mainly have sweet moments here and there in different comics. You can check out my Tim Drake tag, I do have some scans in there with moments of Helena and Tim and I think most of them have the issue number and title they're from in case you wanna check out the full comic.

https://purpleladyofthenight.tumblr.com/tagged/tim%20drake

[purpleladyofthenight]

We are a small bunch but loyal.

I appreciate all of you! 😄

[purpleladyofthenight]

No idea if this is still active but I love this blog. Thank you for providing me with Bertinelli content, it’s super hard to find, especially considering I see a lot of HQ: BOP or Helena Wayne under the Helena Bertinelli tag. She’s one of my faves and it’s always nice to see other blogs that enjoy her.

Thank you so much! This is so nice to hear! I'm not super active with posting because I don't feel like there is anything else left to post for her (since the current version or whatever is just a different characters of the same name), but I do see the notifications and it makes me happy that people still enjoy pre-reboot Helena. Your message really made my day. :)

[purpleladyofthenight]

Hello! I love your blog and the work you do here! May I ask you one thing? When did Helena find out Bruce is Batman? Or maybe she didn't, and I'm just assuming things...

Thank you so much! 💜

I forgot if they ever shown a moment where she figures it out or where he reveals his identity to her. I think it happened off panel and most likely during the time when Helena joined the Justice League.

[purpleladyofthenight]

i'm stalking your blog and i just want to say that you're so amazing! <3 i'm a big big fan of Hel B (the 1989-2011 Hel B) and your blog is a very good space about her!!

I'm glad you like my blog. I love 1989-2011 Helena. She was such a good and complex character. What's your favourite thing about her?

[purpleladyofthenight]

Do you know what issue are for the birds of prey where huntress teams up with Vixxen or I think it was her she was in a purple suit. I think it’s birds of prey I may be wrong. Looks like a really intense story with them but idk what issues that story was.

It's from Birds of Prey Vol. 1 #69-73

[purpleladyofthenight]

who's ur favorite female batfam character after Helena?

That's a good question, I don't really like any of them all that much (mainly because of their fans)... but Stephanie I guess.

[purpleladyofthenight]

first i want to say that english isnt my first english so i'm sorry for any mistakes :) hi, i'm from brazil and i'm new and already a fan of your blog, i'm a huge fan of bop and i also do not like new 52 version of Helena, she was first depicted as dead and then the new badass spy girl showed up and is taking her place now, but what do you think of mary elizabeth winstead version of huntress? i like it despite the fact that she had 20 minutes screen time

I don't like the movie Helena either. From what I've heard, Helena is just comic relief in that movie and I think they even got her story wrong, plus her costume sucks.

[purpleladyofthenight]

Correct me if I am wrong but I think I read you say that Helena is wealthy. Do you know how wealthy Helena is?

There's more in-depth information on how rich she is in this post I linked.

Helena Bertinelli

Ah yes, I forgot to add that Helena drives a Lamborghini and in Question: Pipeline Helena talks about how much money she had to spend since

Huntress: Year One does give us a number of 3 billion euros, however even before Year One came out, The Bertinellis were written to be on par with the Waynes, but doing bad things instead of good things. Since Helena is the sole heir of everyone in her family (not just her parents, but her entire family everywhere in the world, everyone named Bertinelli basically), it can be assumed that Helena is most likely just as wealthy as Bruce Wayne, since she inherited the money from all the Bertinellis (who were a successful crime family) everywhere in the world.

I know there's a dumb storyline somewhere where her assets get frozen, but it's a dumb storyline and I usually ignore it.

[purpleladyofthenight]

Just out of curiosity, what's the problem with Helena's stories from when she joins the Birds of Prey on?

Writers started using her less in Batfam stories and even though she used to basically be kind of a member of the Batfam, she became adjacent Batfam after she joined the BoP and her importance to DC Comics kinda went away. She had less significant appearances in other comics after she joined the BoP, she'd only appear for like one panel in most comics and she wouldn't even get any lines. Whereas in the early days, she would be more important to the plot of the comic she appears in. And then she was deleted along with Dinah and Oracle and the rest of the BoP when the reboot came along. I think if she stayed as mainly part of the Batfam rather than being BoP, she might have escaped the reboot. But then again, every Batfam girl who wasn't named Barbara Gordon was deleted. And I doubt Paul Levitz (creator of Helena Wayne) would miss his chance to bring his Huntress back and make Bertinelli just a dead mafia daughter who had an interesting enough name for Helena Wayne to steal her identity.

But I think that if she wasn't part of the BoP, we would have seen her in more significant stories before the reboot. When Gail wrote BoP, she mostly kept Helena in the background to Barbara and Dinah. There were some good times too, but we didn't get a lot of Helena with BoP either. Barbara and Dinah were featured way more. Helena was allegedly a main member of the team, but it definitely didn't feel that way with how little she was featured compared to the other two main members. When other writers took over, the girls got more balanced when it came to how much they were featured and also, their interactions seemed more friendly and more as a team working together, and it was less Barbara and her two henchwomen.

[purpleladyofthenight]

Hi, thanks for answering my last ask. I'm almost done reading through the starter guide you had layed out for Helena Bertinelli, save for the original 1989 comic I still need to find. Are there any other stories with her worth checking out? I'm a Batman reader by trade so those stories appeal to me more but I did have a lot of fun with Birds of Prey, not gonna lie!

No Man's Land is really good and more Batman centric. I'm going to link you an ask where I talk about specific issues where Helena appears:

hello, i really love your blog ! I was wondering could you tell me in which issues helena is appearing as batgirl ? thank you very much :) T

You could also check out:

Shadow of the Bat #53

Detective Comics #652, 653, 720, 721, 763

Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma

Detective Comics #859-865 aka The Question: Pipeline

Batman versus Predator II: Bloodmatch

DCU Holiday Special 2008

Showcase '93 #9-10

Showcase '94 #5-6

Huntress (1994) #1-4

Batman: Chronicles #1, 14

Batman The Brave and The Bold #11, 14

Catwoman (1997) #51-52

Helena's early stories, before she joined the Birds of Prey are way better than after she joined the team. Before she joined the team she was way more involved with the Batfam too. And Bruce was pretty rough on her, but he also kept offering her the city in his absence and he kept telling her that she should take over if he died.