Technically, this is the top five Earth-ONE, not two, characters. Earth One is the JSA/GOLDEN AGE earth, Earth-Two the JLA/Silver and Bronze age earth.

And she was GREAT in the JLE!! (Diet soda anyone?)

Oh, yeah, you're right, and I knew that, just wasn't thinking. They're "Earth-The-Only-One" characters.

All the choices are good, though — even though they're all Infinitors. There was also All-Star Squadron and Young All-Stars to choose from, right? (I guess a lot of the Squadron, like Liberty Belle, actually existed back in the '40s, right? But I'm betting Amazing Man was new.) If Buttler's right about Psycho-Pirate, then he deserves to be here. I'm also very fond of the new Icicle, the son of the original. Was he created when Earth-2 still existed and Geoff Johns has just built him up, or is he a GJ invention?

She's a less screwed-up version of Supergirl. For the moment, that's enough direction (plus being the leader of the JSA, even though, like Black Canary, she's seemingly been written to defer to the more traditional leadership characters like Jay, Allen, and Mr. Terrific).

I think they're actually - for the first time since the mid-90s, it seems - doing a good job of slowly building to her getting a solo book. Focus on her in JSA v1, give her the big-name Classified spotlight, move her into the JSA leadership in v2, now the annual, and THEN launch the solo series. Heck, Meltzer even inserted that little bit about her being ready for JLA membership in the first issue of the new series.

They did stuff like that (you know, actually creating demand for a series instead of rushing it out with five pages' worth of publicity in a dollar special) with Nightwing / Birds of Prey / Robin and all of those books are still ongoing. The last time I can think of something similar was with Hawkman, and even then they didn't really prime the pump with a miniseries or special.

The Secret Six ongoing is another recent example of this type of marketing, and as a result I think it'll do well.

The JSA Annual, if well-done, should do a lot for her character. I don't know why DC doesn't seem to know what to do with the character. She's an extremely tough personality with Superman-level powers but with a large degree of vulnerability because of her lost origins. Personally, I really enjoyed the kick-off for JSA Classified.

Post-Crisis, that character became Bette Kane, Flamebird, as a jokey reference to the pre-Crisis heroes of the bottled city of Kandor, Nightwing and Flamebird. Clearly she and Dick were MEANT to be together!

Theno

There was a Golden Age guy by that name, but totally different guy, different M.O. The one we know was an original Silver Age Earth-2 creation from 1965.

Or is part of the idea that even the name had to be new? That would let out Firebrand, of course, but also probably Huntress.