Rose Forrest

Rose Forrest is a DC character who debuted in 1970, harboring a split personality known as the Thorn — a masked vigilante who emerges when Rose sleeps, driven by a traumatic past she cannot consciously remember or control.

Born in the pages of Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #106 in 1970, Rose Forrest is a Silver Age DC creation from the pen of Robert Kanigher and artist Werner Roth — a character whose debut issue carries genuine collector significance. Over a remarkable span stretching from 1970 all the way to 2025, she's proven herself a quietly enduring presence in the DC universe, turning up across titles as varied as Detective Comics and Adventures of Superman. The company she keeps is genuinely rarefied — her stories place her alongside Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, and Clark Kent himself — and the character known as Thorn is a persistent presence in her world. For fans who love digging into the deeper corners of DC's Silver Age legacy, Rose Forrest is exactly the kind of discovery that reminds you how rich and strange that era truly was.