Editing Phantom Lady (section)

===Sandra Knight===
[[File:Freedom Fighters 10.jpg|thumb|''Freedom Fighters'' #10 (October 1977). Phantom Lady fights [[Catman (comics)|Cat-Man]], with fellow Quality superheroes the Human Bomb and [[Uncle Sam (comics)|Uncle Sam]].]]

In 1956, DC Comics obtained the rights to the Quality Comics characters, which they believed included Phantom Lady, and reintroduced her 17 years later with a group of other former Quality heroes as the [[Freedom Fighters (comics)|Freedom Fighters]] in ''[[Justice League|Justice League of America]]'' #107 (October 1973).<ref name="dc-free">{{Cite book | last = Greenberger | first = Robert | author-link = Robert Greenberger | contribution = Freedom Fighters | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The DC Comics Encyclopedia | pages = 131 | publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]] | place = New York  | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-7566-4119-1 | oclc = 213309017}}</ref>

As was done with many characters DC acquired from other publishers, or that were holdovers from Golden Age titles, the Freedom Fighters were relocated to a [[Multiverse (DC Comics)|parallel world]]. Their particular earth was referred to as "[[List of DC Multiverse worlds#Catalogued|Earth-X]]". On Earth-X, [[Nazi Germany]] had won [[World War II]]. The team was later featured in its own series for 15 issues (1976–1978), in which they temporarily left Earth-X for "[[Earth-One|Earth-1]]" (where most DC titles were set at the time) and Phantom Lady was given real phantom-like powers.

During the final issue of the original ''Freedom Fighters'' series, the writers gave the character an origin story. One night, Sandra happened across two would-be assassins targeting her father, and stealthily thwarted them with nothing more than a rolled-up newspaper. Knight consequently developed a taste for adventure and crime-fighting, and after finding a "black light ray projector" that a family friend named Professor Davis sent to her father, she adopted the device as a weapon.

In 1981, Phantom Lady became a recurring guest star of ''[[All-Star Squadron]]'', a superhero-team title set on "[[Earth-Two|Earth-2]]", the locale for DC's World War II-era superheroes, and at a time prior to when she and the other Freedom Fighters were supposed to have left for Earth-X.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Roy |title=The All-Star Companion: Vol 2 |date=2006 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1893905375 |page=93}}</ref> Phantom Lady then appeared with the rest of DC's superheroes in ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'', a story that was intended to eliminate the confusing histories that DC had attached to its characters by retroactively merging the various parallel worlds into one. This left Phantom Lady's Earth-X days written out of her history, and the Freedom Fighters became a mere splinter group of the All-Star Squadron.

DC also [[retroactive continuity|retcon]]ned the origin of Phantom Lady established in Quality's ''Police Comics'', so that she now belonged to the prestigious Knight family of [[Opal City]], a locale central to DC's [[Starman (comics)|Starman]] line of heroes. Her formative story was changed so that she overtook her father's would-be assassins with her fists instead of a newspaper. Lastly, she was given a more active role in the acquisition of her black light ray, which she no longer received from a mere family friend but instead from a scientist named Dr. Abraham Davis, who had escaped from [[Nazism|Nazi]]-controlled [[Europe]]. In the retelling, Sandra Knight gave asylum to Davis, setting him up in a laboratory and helping him to complete his invention. Ted Knight, now established as her cousin, also aided Davis, as a result acquiring the technology that allowed him to become the first [[Starman (Ted Knight)|Starman]].

The 1994 title ''[[Damage (DC comics)|Damage]]'' established the post-World War II history for Phantom Lady. She was made an agent of a [[Cold War]]-era government [[intelligence agency]] called Argent, in which she met and married fellow former-All Star Squadron member [[Iron Munro]] (a character introduced in the 1986 series ''[[Young All-Stars]]''). The two were paired on several missions and fought a Soviet-backed agent named The Baron, actually the German [[Baron Blitzkrieg]], a foe both had met during World War II. Shortly after becoming pregnant, Sandra was kidnapped by The Baron who stole the [[fetus]] from her womb and left her for dead. After escaping from Communist Poland, Sandra wanted out of the spy game and turned to an old friend, [[Human Bomb#Roy Lincoln|Roy Lincoln]]. He helped her, and soon thereafter she started the Universite Notre Dame Des Ombres (the University of Our Lady of the Shadows) in the hopes of making further intelligence contacts and finding her baby, but she was not successful. Phantom Lady's presence in the U.S. and her work with American Intelligence was kept a secret to most; she never reunited with her husband, and in her old age became headmistress of the school she began, now a training center for female spies in Washington, D.C.

In ''[[Manhunter (Kate Spencer)|Manhunter]]'' (vol. 3) #23 (June 2006), Phantom Lady met the current Manhunter, Kate Spencer, and it was revealed that she was Spencer's grandmother. Phantom Lady and Iron Munro were revealed to have had a child before their marriage whom they gave up for adoption&mdash;Walter Pratt, Spencer's father. The [[Atom (Al Pratt)|Golden Age Atom]], Al Pratt, had allowed Phantom Lady to use his contact information so that she could get into a home for unwed mothers, causing the belief that the child was Pratt's son. Knight and Munro still keep in contact, as she brought him to meet Kate and her son, Ramsey.