During the Golden Age, characters were often introduced without an origin story...
...such as this aviatrix who premiered in the male-dominated pages of Hilman's Air Fighters Comics #2 (1942).
Though the writer is unknown, the art is by John Cassone, a journeyman artist who worked for practically everyone at one point or another doing everything from Westerns to war to pirates, during the Golden Age.
Trivia: Black Angel is one of the few
British heroines in Golden Age comics!
When the
Air Fighters characters were revived by
Eclipse Comics in the 1980s, a
Black Angel was part of a team of female aviatrix,
Air Maidens, led by
Airboy's nemesis
Valkyrie.
But it was a different character,
Holly McCovey, replacing the now-elderly Sylvia Lawton as Black Angel.
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| Cover of HTF b/w reprint from early 1990s |
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