This bird won't be caged! Rediscover the origin of DC s original crime-fighting bird of prey in
this collection of classic Golden and Silver Age tales! Introduced in 1947 as a supporting
character in the Johnny Thunder backup stories in Flash Comics Black Canary became an instant
hit with readers. After stealing Johnny Thunder s thunder (so to speak) she earned her own
starring feature that established her identity as Dinah Drake a meek florist by day who dished
out vigilante justice by night under the guise of the Black Canary. Black Canary often found
herself tangled in the cases of Larry Lance a down-on-his-luck private eye who operated his
detective agency out of Dinah s flower shop. Whenever Larry found himself in way over his head
it was up to Black Canary s fighting skills and knack for crime solving to save the day which
broke convention from the typical damsel-in-distress archetype of the era. The Black Canary:
Bird of Prey collects all of Dinah Drake s early comic book appearances from Flash Comics plus
other adventures written and illustrated by comic book legends such as Robert Kanigher Gardner
Fox Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson. This edition features stories from Flash Comics
#86-88 90-104 Comic Cavalcade #25 DC Special #3 Adventure Comics #399 418-419 and The
Brave and the Bold #61-62.
