Who Is Harbinger? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Harbinger is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Lyla Michaels, with over 238 comic issue appearances. Assistant of the Monitor - an ultra-dimensional being who used her to gather information on super-powered beings across the universe/multiverse.

Who is Harbinger?

Current Events Harbinger in Multiversity Harbinger manifested again as the AI of Monitor's Satellite (aka the Multiversity), a badly damaged construction. If this is the same one from the original Monitor and if this Harbinger AI have some relationship with Lyla Michaels, form the original Crisis, is a mystery still to be solved. History Crisis As a child, Lyla was found clinging to floating wreckage in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean by the Monitor , who was scanning the Earth, preparing to defend this universe against the so-called Crisis on Infinite Earths . The young girl was rescued by the Monitor and brought to his secretive satellite. The Monitor raised and trained Lyla as his assistants and the Earth-born child spent the next twenty years aboard the satellite, moving throughout this universe and others – past, present, and the far distance future. During her years of travel Lyla learned that she would assist the Monitor by bringing to him certain super-powered warriors who would aid him in his final battle against the ultimate evil called the Anti-Monitor . To do this, Lyla would enter a special chamber that would give her great powers the greatest of which would be to rep.

Key facts

Harbinger is of human origin and first appeared in "The Murder Machine". The character is published by DC Comics. With 238 recorded issue appearances, Harbinger ranks among the most featured characters in comics.