Black Canary Archives #1

([January] 2001)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carmine Infantino

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary

Synopsis:

Carmine Infantino remembers how he created the look of the Black Canary.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / credits / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary

Indexer Notes

This is also the Table of Contents.

The Black Canary (Table of Contents)

Johnny Thunder / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; humor

Characters:

Black Canary; Thunderbolt

Synopsis:

Johnny Thunder is convinced by the Black Canary to steal a mask that will get her into a crime boss' party. Unbeknownst to Johnny, the Canary uses the opportunity to rob the crime boss’ safe.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #86 (August 1947)

Indexer Notes

1st Black Canary story.

The Package of Peril (Table of Contents)

Johnny Thunder / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

George Storm ?

Inks:

Irwin Hasen ?

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; humor

Characters:

Black Canary; Johnny Thunder; Thunderbolt; Peachy Pet

Synopsis:

After receiving a pie with a small, living black bird inside, Johnny chases the bird and ends up at a building where the Black Canary is being held prisoner. She hid a map in the pie that some crooks want and sent it to Johnny’s house for safekeeping.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #87 (September 1947)

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks credits from the index to the original Flash Comics presentation. The Archives credits Carmine Infantino with the pencils and Joe Giella with the inks.

The Map That Wasn't There! (Table of Contents)

Johnny Thunder / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Bob Oksner

Colors:

Digital Chameleon

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero; Humor

Characters:

Johnny Thunder; Black Canary; Thunderbolt; Peachy Pet

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #88 (October 1947)

Indexer Notes

Inks credits from the index to the original Flash Comics presentation. The Archives credits the inks to Joe Giella.

Produce the Crime! (Table of Contents)

Johnny Thunder / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; humor

Characters:

Johnny Thunder

Synopsis:

Johnny gets involved with a missing ruby and a disappearing window washer.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #89 (November 1947)

Triple Exposure! (Table of Contents)

Johnny Thunder and the Black Canary / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; humor

Characters:

Johnny Thunder; Black Canary; Thunderbolt

Synopsis:

A picture of the Black Canary and Johnny Thunder robbing a bank causes lots of trouble for the duo.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #90 (December 1947)

The Tumbling Trees! (Table of Contents)

Johnny Thunder and the Black Canary / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; humor

Characters:

Johnny Thunder; Black Canary; Thunderbolt

Synopsis:

As Johnny relaxes in a forest, he watches as two boys start uprooting trees and throwing them. Then, a criminal gang and the Black Canary show up in the same forest. He discovers the forest is cardboard and serves as the gang’s hideout.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #91 (January 1948)

Flash Comics #92 (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Flash; Hawkman

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #92 (February 1948)

The Huntress of the Highway! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

As Larry Lance begins his investigation into a series of delivery trucks disappearances, Dinah gets a funeral wreath request-- for Larry Lance! She decides to follow him and help out as the Black Canary.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #92 (February 1948)

Tune of Terror! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Phil Martin; Bob Martin

Synopsis:

The Black Canary becomes involved when a country boy named Phil Martin has several assassination attempts on his life. In this story, the Canary chants an oath to command a flock of black canaries to save her and Phil at one point.

Reprints:

• from Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1942 series) #25 (February-March 1948)

Mystery of the Crimson Crystal! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Frank Giacoia ?; Joe Giella ?

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Larry Lance; Bullet Benn [as the Swami]

Synopsis:

Larry waits for a client to meet him at Dinah’s flower shop, only to have the client die in his arms as soon as she appears. She was followed and killed by members of the Crimson Crystal cult after stealing their precious crimson crystal. They kidnap Larry, and the police catch the Black Canary standing over the woman’s body. Now its up to the Canary to rescue Larry and clear her name.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #93 (March 1948)

Indexer Notes

Inks:
see Notes in Flash Comics #93 (http://www.comics.org/issue/6542/#65010)

Corsage of Death (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

When a street vendor’s flowers explode and kill a man, Larry and Dinah --the only witnesses to the crime-- are framed for it.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #94 (April 1948)

An Orchid For The Deceased! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

Larry Lance moves his PI business into Dinah’s flower shop, much to her dismay. Soon after, Dinah gets an order for a black orchid to be delivered to Andrew J. Masters. But the order is from-- the Black Canary?

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #95 (May 1948)

The Riddle of the Topaz Brooch! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

While on an ice cream date, Larry and Dinah stumble across a dead body. Dinah changes to Black Canary as the real murderers return to the scene. The thugs responsible then frame the two for the murder. Larry and the Canary escape the police and attempt to clear their name with their only clue-- a newspaper article in the dead man’s hand.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #96 (June 1948)

Indexer Notes

This is the first story that shows the Black Canary riding a motorcycle.

The Mystery of the Stolen Cloth! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance; Donald Swain

Synopsis:

After being given a swatch of cloth worth millions from a dying chemical CEO, Larry is kidnapped by a group of thugs. Black Canary then comes to his rescue.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #97 (July 1948)

The Byzantine Black! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance; Roger Steele

Synopsis:

Dinah catches some thugs who break into her shop and convert it into a grocery store, as a part of a set-up to get at a rich man’'s millions.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #98 (August 1948)

Time Runs Out! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

Dinah and Larry watch dancing figures on a music box when the female dancing figure shoots the male figure. The shopkeeper, looking exactly like the male dancing figure, then dies while Larry and Dinah watch. This leads the duo to a sculptor and music box builder that sculpts clay models of his crimes.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #99 (September 1948)

The Circle of Terror! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kaigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #100 (October 1948)

The Day That Wouldn’t End! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

Larry and Dinah stumble onto a plot to convince a wealthy man that time has stopped.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #101 (November 1948)

The Riddle Of The Roses! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

A gentleman orders all of Dinah’s roses, but when she and Larry deliver the roses, they find criminals in the house, a dead man, and a missing emerald.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #102 (December 1948)

Mystery on Ice! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

An ice skating date for Larry and Dinah turns deadly when a client of Larry'’s is stalked by a criminal gang.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #103 (January 1949)

Crime on Her Hands! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

Dinah answers a call for Larry and hears shots over the phone. She then changes to Black Canary and races to help Larry solved an old murder case.

Reprints:

• from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #104 (February 1949)

DC Special #3 (Table of Contents)

DC’s Fighting Females / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Neal Adams; Nick Cardy

Inks:

Nick Cardy

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Supergirl; Wonder Woman; Black Canary; Star Sapphire; Cheetah

Reprints:

• from DC Special (DC, 1968 series) #3 (April-June 1969)

Special Delivery Death! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Bernard Sachs

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

Larry is hired to deliver an envelope to J.J. Marvin, who is being followed by 2 thugs. When Larry is accused of killing Marvin for the contents of the envelope, the Black Canary gets involved in order to prove his innocence.

Reprints:

• from DC Special (DC, 1968 series) #3 (April-June 1969)

Television Told The Tale! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Bernard Sachs

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Larry Lance

Synopsis:

As Dinah watches a diamond display from a wealthy woman’'s estate on TV, she realizes something is amiss with the cameraman. She decides to investigate as Black Canary.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #399 (November 1970)

Mastermind of Menaces (Table of Contents)

Starman and Black Canary / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Murphy Anderson

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Starman; Mist

Reprints:

• from The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #61 (August-September 1965)

Mastermind of Menaces (Table of Contents)

Starman and Black Canary / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Murphy Anderson

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]; Staman [Ted Knight]; Larry Lance; the Mist

Synopsis:

As Ted Knight comes to Park City on business, he visits his friends, the Lances. He then gets involved with the Mist’s plot using Dinah’s flowers as mind control devices. This also ties into a series of robberies that Larry has been investigating for a few days now.

Reprints:

• from The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #61 (August-September 1965)

Indexer Notes

As revealed this issue, Larry and Dinah were married at some point after she retired as the Black Canary. She still runs her flower shop and Larry is still a private investigator.

The Big Superhero Hunt! (Table of Contents)

Black Canary; Starman / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Murphy Anderson

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Starman; Black Canary; Huntress; Sportsmaster; Wildcat (vignette)

Reprints:

• from The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #62 (October-November 1965)

The Big Superhero Hunt! (Table of Contents)

Starman and Black Canary / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Murphy Anderson

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Starman; Black Canary; Wildcat; Sportsmaster; Huntress

Synopsis:

The Sportsmaster and the Huntress have wed, becoming Mr. And Mrs. Menace. Together they are gathering superhero captives for the Huntress’ super-hero menagerie. They’ve captured Wildcat, and are now after Starman. Black Canary becomes involved when Sportsmaster robs a benefit she is attending.

Reprints:

• from The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #62 (October-November 1965)

The Cat and The Canary (Part One) (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dennis O’Neil

Pencils:

Alex Toth (signed)

Inks:

Alex Toth (signed)

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Synopsis:

Dinah is hired to teach self-defense to a woman’s activist group. But they are more than they appear.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #418 (April 1972)

Indexer Notes

Title from Table of Contents

The Cat and The Canary (Part Two) (Table of Contents)

Black Canary / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dennis O’Neil

Pencils:

Alex Toth (signed)

Inks:

Alex Toth (signed)

Colors:

Digital Chameleon (Archive colors)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Canary; Green Arrow (cameo-flashback); Catwoman (cameo)

Synopsis:

Black Canary awakens to find out the turth about the Women’s Resistance League and their leader, Catwoman.

Reprints:

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #419 (May 1972)

Indexer Notes

Title from Table of Contents

Biographies (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

biography

Synopsis:

Brief biographies of the artists and writers involved in the Black Canary saga including Murphy Anderson, Gardner Fox, Joe Giella, Carmine Infantino, Robert Kanigher, Dennis O’Neil, Bernard Sachs, and Alex Toth