Adventure Comics #428

Adventure Comics #428 (August 1973) spotlights the mysterious Black Orchid in a cover by Bob Oksner that sets an unmistakably eerie tone — the winged, pink-costumed heroine soars against a pale full moon while bats swirl through the night air around a gloomy, bare-branched rooftop. Below her, a group of menacing men armed with a gun peer upward from a lit window, clearly not pleased by her arrival. Billed right on the cover as an "Origin Issue," this is a compelling introduction to one of DC's more enigmatic figures, with interior story "The Ghosts on the Glasses" crafted by writer Steve Skeates and artist Tony DeZuniga.