Adeline Kane-Wilson

Adeline Kane was a highly skilled military combat instructor who trained and eventually married the mercenary Slade Wilson — known as Deathstroke the Terminator — and is the mother of Joseph Wilson (Jericho), a member of the Teen Titans.

Introduced in the Bronze Age pages of Tales of the Teen Titans #42 (1984) by the legendary creative team of Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, Adeline Kane-Wilson is one of those figures whose presence carries real weight — a character whose debut dropped her into the same charged orbit as Donna Troy, Dick Grayson, Victor Stone, Koriand'r, and Joseph Wilson. Her story has proven durable enough to stretch across four decades, all the way to 2025, and three of her appearances carry the distinction of being collector-recognized key issues — a remarkable ratio for a catalog count of nine. Whether you're discovering her through classic Tales of the Teen Titans or the haunting Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, Adeline Kane-Wilson is the kind of character who reminds you why the Bronze Age produced some of DC's most enduring, emotionally complex figures — one absolutely worth tracking down.