Lorraine Reilly

Lorraine Reilly is the daughter of a U.S. senator who was subjected to an experimental process by the villainous Tokamak, transforming her into Firehawk — a nuclear-powered hero capable of flight, energy blasts, and pyrokinesis. She later became connected to the Firestorm Matrix itself.

Introduced in the pages of The Fury of Firestorm #6 in 1982, Lorraine Reilly is a Bronze Age DC creation from the pen of Paul Kupperberg and the legendary pencils of Curt Swan — a pairing that alone signals this character arrived with real craft behind her. Over four decades of DC continuity, she's woven through the Firestorm family of titles, sharing pages with heavyweights like Batman, The Flash, and Ronnie Raymond, which speaks to the caliber of storytelling she's been part of. With two collector-recognized key issues to her name and appearances stretching all the way to 2023, Lorraine Reilly is the kind of quietly enduring figure that rewards the dedicated reader who digs deeper into DC's Nuclear Age mythology.