Black Orchid

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mature, Superhero
Publisher: DC Comics

Vol 1: 1991
Before introducing the modern version of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman wrote this dark tale that reinvented a strange DC Comics super hero in the Vertigo mold. Featuring spectacular art by Gaiman’s frequent collaborator, DaveMcKean, BLACK ORCHID. After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn fully grown as the Black Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, destined to avenge her own death. Now, as this demigoddessattempts to reconcile human memory and botanical origins, she must untangle the webs of deception and secrets that led to her death. Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in the Amazon rainforest, this book takes thereader on a journey through secrets, suffering and self-rediscovery.

Vol 2: September 1993 – June 1995
Reporter Walt Maddocks has made it his business to find people who don’t want to be found. Currently, that’s Flora Black, who briefly achieved fame when she saved a high-profile political candidate from an assassin’s bullet. No one has seen her since, but Maddocks is convinced she has connections to a professional escort named Blackie, and just possibly the mysterious Black Orchid.

Black Orchid

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