Strange Visitor aka Sharon Vance first appeared in Superman v2, #149
of October 1999, wearing Superman's old containment suit and was soon
discovered to be Kismet.Because of a lightning strike on a plane, the
cosmic entity Kismet and Sharon Vance (Clark Kent's childhood friend
from Smallville) became one entity known as the Strange Visitor. She
had become a being of pure electromagnetic energy, and was drawn to
the laboratories of Professor Emil Hamilton, who still had one of
Superman's containment suits (from a period when he was temporarily
converted to electromagnetic energy). Emil modified the suit to fit
her since test results showed that her energy field was dissolving,
and the suit would help her maintain solid form. Her memories were
weak, and even though she easily used her powers to magnetically
levitate trains over destroyed tracks, destroy alien attackers with an
electromagnetic pulse, and absorb the powers of a self-proclaimed "god
of war", she still wasn't sure who she really was.Even more disturbing
was the fact that her emotional state was affecting her powers, and
when she became angry or upset, her power levels surged to the point
where her containment suit was almost unable to handle all of the
energy. If the suit were to fail, she would lose her physical form. A
battle with the Parasite restores her powers and her memories.She
later went on to become a hero in her own city. She fought Gorilla
Grodd in New York, but was accused of attacking a "monkey".
of October 1999, wearing Superman's old containment suit and was soon
discovered to be Kismet.Because of a lightning strike on a plane, the
cosmic entity Kismet and Sharon Vance (Clark Kent's childhood friend
from Smallville) became one entity known as the Strange Visitor. She
had become a being of pure electromagnetic energy, and was drawn to
the laboratories of Professor Emil Hamilton, who still had one of
Superman's containment suits (from a period when he was temporarily
converted to electromagnetic energy). Emil modified the suit to fit
her since test results showed that her energy field was dissolving,
and the suit would help her maintain solid form. Her memories were
weak, and even though she easily used her powers to magnetically
levitate trains over destroyed tracks, destroy alien attackers with an
electromagnetic pulse, and absorb the powers of a self-proclaimed "god
of war", she still wasn't sure who she really was.Even more disturbing
was the fact that her emotional state was affecting her powers, and
when she became angry or upset, her power levels surged to the point
where her containment suit was almost unable to handle all of the
energy. If the suit were to fail, she would lose her physical form. A
battle with the Parasite restores her powers and her memories.She
later went on to become a hero in her own city. She fought Gorilla
Grodd in New York, but was accused of attacking a "monkey".
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