Welcome to Our Contribution to Countdown to Halloween 2024...
...as we introduce the never-reprinted adventures of the most mysterious heroine of all!
To Be Concluded...Thursday!
Written by Sheldon Mayer, illustrated by Tony DeZuniga, this premiere tale from DC's Adventure Comics #428 (1973) will offer no actual clues as to who (or what) The Black Orchid is...despite the fact it's promoted as an "Origin Issue"!
Superhuman Being?
Scientific Adventuress?
Spectral Avenger of Evil?
Or All of the Above?
Her strip ran for three issues in Adventure Comics before becoming a back-up strip in The Phantom Stranger for eight issues...which should tell you something about the direction of the series!
The unresolved concept was so intriguing that the creators of DC/Vertigo's Sandman, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, took a crack at resolving it in a Vertigo series a couple of decades later!
The unresolved concept was so intriguing that the creators of DC/Vertigo's Sandman, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, took a crack at resolving it in a Vertigo series a couple of decades later!
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