Her first appearance was in Hawkman #4, it along with the extened storyline of her search for Zatara across several DC titles was reprinted ina trade that is now out of print...
She did not technically appear in Detective 336, but the character who did-The Witch, was retroactively decided to be Zatanna and is included.
Other appearances included: Atom 19, Green Lantern 42, Detective 355, JLA 51.
Also included is the story from DC Blue Ribbon Digest #5 (from 1980) which adds a piece of retroactive continuity showing the disappearance of Zatara and the beginning of her search for him .
From there Zatanna had a back up strip inAdventure Comics (during the Supergirl run) and in Supergirl's title in the early 70s, and didn't join the JLA until 1978 in JLA 161, so she had a bit of history before the Satellite era of the League.
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Really looking forward to this week's issue and To see hawkwoman meeting Carter but I'm still waiting for Carter and Kendra to finally have a serious talk about their relationship.
I’m just getting into this series, and a lot of other rebirth titles, and it’s definitely one of my favorite. I really want to see the Atom guest star in this book, or become a permanent fixture in his supporting cast.
As much as I love Hawkman and Venditti this series has so far been just ok.
The first arc was pretty good and Venditti really has a good voice for Carter but it was very much lessened by how dragged out it was. I mean 12 issues for one story is Bendis territory. Hitches art was great though.
Then the second arc that just ended with Shadow Thief was just average and now were getting into Year of the villain crossover. 17 issues in and this is what we got.
It's really a shame because like I said the potential is there with how well Venditti writes Hawkman but the first arc dragging on forever followed up by a mediocre one and now a crossover is killing what the series can actually be.
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
Today's issue was actually better than I expected.
It's a tie in to Year of the Villain and all the other nonsense going on but Venditti managed to make it stand on it's own and be a Hawkman story rather than an offshoot of those other events. So kudos for that.
With that being said, although the premise was good the action in the issue itself was just ok.
The last page is promising though.
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake