Golden Age Black Canary (Dinah Drake-Lance) Appreciation (2019)

[MajorHoy]

NOTE: This thread is to serve as continuation of the previous Golden Age Black Canary (Dinah Drake-Lance) Appreciation 2018 thread, which can be found at

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ciation-Thread

And while there is also currently the Black Canary Appreciation 2019 (https://community.cbr.com/showthread...reciation-2019), once again that seems to focus more on the current version of Black Canary, the one with the sonic canary-cry powers.

from the previous version (originally created 05-16-2018):

. . . the original version of the character, who first appeared in the Johnny Thunder feature in Flash Comics #86 (cover-date August 1947).


She appeared again with Johnny in the following two issues (#87 and #88), and when she next appeared in issue #90, she was sharing the lead in that feature with Johnny.


That arrangement didn't last very long; by issue #92 (cover-date February 1948), Black Canary had taken over the spot and poor Johnny was quickly forgotten.

[MajorHoy]

Also from the previous version of this thread:

from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. II (April 1985)


from Green Arrow Annual #2 (1989)

[MajorHoy]

From Black Canary's first solo-outing in her own feature
(Flash Comics #92 , cover-dated February 1948):


You can learn a little more about it from the "Flowers & Fishnets" Black Canary fan BlogSpot (http://blackcanaryfan.blogspot.com/2...comics-92.html).

[Lee Stone]

I read her first story here recently and really enjoyed it.

[MajorHoy]

Originally from Flash Comics #93 (March 1948):




You can learn a little more about this episode from
http://blackcanaryfan.blogspot.com/2...comics-93.html.
Or you can find a copy of World's Finest Comics #225 from 1974 where it was reprinted?
It supposedly also was included in the Black Canary Archives #1 back in 2001.

[Cmbmool]

If anything here’s hoping that DC restores this unique legacy superheroine to their Golden Age history in the near future.

[Güicho]

Love her and Wildcat, pretty much a pugilist and hand to hand brawler with costumes, they hang with the most "super" alien, supernatural, magic, mythical or super-weapon-tech "powered" beings in the universe, and mostly use their knuckles to fighting right along side the first superhero team.


golden age Atom not withstanding.

And although later abandoned I love the domino-mask on her.

[kcekada]

As a kid, I really enjoyed those Golden Age reprints -- mostly in 100-Page Spectaculars of Detective Comics or Batman. Very stylish series that I think would make a great TV series or movie -- but it would have to be set in 40s. I like modern day Canary, but I think she works best in this Golden Age -- very ahead of her time in owning a business and fighting crime mano a mano. And Larry Lance was a great supporting character/love interest.

[MajorHoy]

In the previous version of this thread (Golden Age Black Canary (Dinah Drake-Lance) Appreciation 2018 = https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ciation-Thread) I posted some pages from the version of Black Canary's origin from Secret Origins #50 (August 1990).

The following are from the original version, as told in DC Special Series #10 (1978).
NOTE: This was before DC retconned things so that there was a mother and a daughter who were "Black Canary".

[MajorHoy]

from Comic Cavalcade #25 (February-March 1948):

[MajorHoy]

from Real Fact Comics #13 (March-April 1948):



Oh, and for the answers (as of 1948),
spoilers:

1. Black Canary - Flash Comics 2. Tomahawk - Star Spangled Comics 3. Buzzy - Buzzy 4. Dodo and The Frog - Funny Stuff 5. Peter Porkchops - Leading Comics 6. Vigilante - Action Comics

end of spoilers