The stories never showed her when she wasn't in some disguise, nor revealed her real name or the origin of her powers (although one story arc gave an apparent reveal, which then turned out to be part of a Costume Copycat plot). She can also do more standard superheroics she has a purple superhero outfit and can fly, has super strength, and is Immune to Bullets. After three try-out issues of Adventure Comics, she became the regular back-up feature in The Phantom Stranger for the next few years.īlack Orchid is a master of disguise, and many of her adventures involve her going undercover in the criminal organisation she is investigating. To begin at the beginning: Black Orchid was created by writer Sheldon Mayer and artist Tony DeZuniga, and debuted in Adventure Comics #428 (July, 1973), during the early days of the Bronze Age. (There's a well-known anecdote to the effect that when Gaiman asked his DC editor if he could do a Black Orchid story, he then had to explain to her who Black Orchid was.) In particular, there's one very famous expectation-subverting scene at the time this page was created, that scene alone was responsible for fully half of the Black Orchid-related trope examples on this wiki. Black Orchid is a DC Comics superheroine whose big moment of fame came in a miniseries written by Neil Gaiman, with art by Dave McKean.
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