SPORE (Dr. Constance Hollis)	BIOGRAPHY
Created by Eric Luke and Darryl Banks

PERSONAL DATA

Real Name: Dr. Constance Hollis
Occupation: Scientist
Space Sector: 2814
Known Relatives: Dr. Hollis (father, deceased, first name unknown)
Gender: Female
Height: originally unknown, currently variable
Weight: originally unknown, currently variable
Eyes: originally unknown, currently red
Hair: originally brown, currently green
First Appearance: Green Lantern Vol. 3 #108 (January 1999): "Our Mothers' Names"
Creators: Eric Luke and Darryl Banks

HISTORY

In the latter half of 1947, the famous Professor Hollis conducted secret botanical experiments on the island of Tashmi. His only assistant, Rose Canton, was given a rose and a thorn to study. She would study the rose for its beauty and the jungle thorn to discover why nature had made it an outcast. Sometime afterwards, Hollis discovered a female stranger called the Thorn living on the island. Hollis became the Thorn's first murder victim.

- Flash Comics #89, as told in Infinity, Inc. Annual #1

The Rose and the Thorn personalities would fight a battle for control of Rose Canton for many years. During that time she met and fell in love with Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern. Secretly adopting a new identity as Alyx Thorin, Rose married the hero and became pregnant on their wedding night. Scott would be led to believe Alyx had died in a fire, but she had survived and, fearful for her children's safety, put them up for adoption. Some years later the Thorn personality resurfaced, threatening the now grown up children. Rose/Alyx committed suicide rather than risk harming them in her evil alter ego. - Infinity, Inc. Annual #1

In the present day, Professor Hollis' daughter, Dr. Constance Hollis, duplicated the experiment that gave rise to the Rose and the Thorn. Ingesting a mixture made from the jungle thorn, Constance Hollis' human body died, giving birth to the creature called Spore. Unable to avenge her father's death upon Rose Canton, Spore chose to strike at Rose's daughter, Jade, at the time a Green Lantern.

After an initial attack on Jade during a photoshoot, Spore waited until the object of her vengeance had found the body of Dr. Constance Hollis. By this time, Jade had sought the assistance of Wonder Woman. The two heroes tried to minimize the damage of Spore's violent actions as the very city of New York was threatened. In a moment of forgetfulness, Jade accidentally breathed in, allowing Spore inside her lungs where she would grow and tear the newest Green Lantern apart from the inside out.

Unable to help with physical power, Wonder Woman called upon Gaea, the Earth Mother. The hand of Gaea rose up and dragged Spore into the ground, saving Jade.

Wonder Woman suspects Spore may have been taken into the Green, best described as a metaphysical state formed by the life energy of Earth's vegetation. Whether this is Spore's fate or not is uncertain. She has not been seen since. - Green Lantern Vol. 3 #108

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Spore in chronological order click here

GLCWP NOTE

As I understand Swamp Thing, from which the idea of the Green was created, Spore would not go there but instead to the Gray. Later in its run, the Swamp Thing title featured a story arc (sorry, I don't have the issue numbers) in which the Green (plant life) was attacked by the Gray (funguses).