#Killer instinct wiki black orchid series#
There was a 22-issue Black Orchid ongoing series featuring the new Black Orchid, not written by Neil Gaiman.
(It's complicated, and involves cameos by just about every plant-themed hero or villain on DC's roster, from Poison Ivy to the Swamp Thing.) At the end of the mini, the sister takes up the mantle and becomes the new Black Orchid. It turns out that the real protagonist of the mini is Black Orchid's sister, who is left to deal with the fallout of her death and sort out the messy history of their family, in the process finally revealing who she was and whence her powers. Then, having empirically verified that she really is Immune to Bullets, he burns down the building with her still inside. Then it turns out the secretary's boss knows who she really is - and instead of ranting at her, sticking her in a death trap, or locking her in a storeroom until the Big Bad arrives, he shoots her in the head. The miniseries, one of the pioneering titles that influenced the later Vertigo Comics imprint, starts in the familiar way, with Black Orchid impersonating a secretary to get the goods on another criminal organization. And then in 1988 came Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid miniseries.
She made a string of appearances with John Ostrander's Suicide Squad, putting her mastery of disguise to good use. She appeared in an issue of Blue Devil where various mystic themed characters gave conflicting origin stories for her that parodied some of the more famous Marvel origin stories. She began reappearing in the late 1980s, as some of the children who had read her adventures became comic book writers themselves.
There apparently wasn't enough demand for Black Orchid to get her own series, and when the 1970s version of The Phantom Stranger ended its run, she slipped into obscurity for a decade.
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