Origin: She-Dragon was a typical "valley girl" from a middle class family in southern California. Her abusive father caught an unspecified disease during a tour of duty in Vietnam, and somehow passed it onto Amy. Sick and hospitalized, Amy was cured by the reclusive Johnny Redbeard who saved her life and gave her super-powers. Dubbed Sensation, Amy joined Redbeard for a time as an assistant of sorts, and he, in turn, abused her as much as her father had before. But the powers came with a price - somehow, the Eternal Youths, a group of young Gods from another dimension were able to speak to her from their planet Darkworld, an alternate Earth. When Redbeard abandoned her, she joined joined several other of Redbeard's ex-operatives as a member of the Nixed Men, who beat up and murdered homeless people. It was with the Nixed Men that she first encountered, attacked, and was defeated by The Dragon, whom she then became obsessed with.
Believing her deliquencey to be a result of mental illness, and
diagnosing her as "cured," doctors quickly let her out of jail. On
several separate occasions, Amy, calling herself "She-Dragon," followed
Dragon around, attempting to become either his partner or his
girlfriend, which continually irritated him. After she had her hair
burned off in a battle with the robotic Dragon-Slayer, She-Dragon grew
a fin-like Mohawk and tried to prove her worthiness of being a police
officer by defeating Rapture, a task that she failed.
The Nixed Men, who had been sprung from Dr. Verlag's work-camp by
Freak Force, recruited Amy into Chelsea Nirvana's criminal army
(Chelsea had assumed the identity of Johnny Redbeard II by this time).
She-Dragon infiltrated their ranks but left messages for Officer Dragon
on their activites in an effort to show him that she was serious in her
desire to join the police force. Ultimately, the group was unable to
usurp control of the criminal organization The Vicious Circle from
Cyberface and Nirvana had Redbeard's powers stripped away by the
villain Negate. Later, disguised as Chicago Police Captain Jose
Mendosa, the Vicious Circle villain Imposter had Dragon run off the
Chicago police force and Amy was named as his replacement.