Haunted Horror #1
In "The Wage-Earners," a haunting tale from Haunted Horror #1 (2012), the enigmatic Leonore Black walks a razor's edge between woman and monster, her transformation into a giant black widow spider a grim response to those who exploit the innocent. Artist Mike Sekowsky and inker Bill Walton bring her eerie duality to life, while the cover by Lee Elias and Warren Kremer captures the story’s unsettling tone.
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Leonore Black is a beautiful woman, but also able to transform herself into a giant black widow spider. In this form she kills men who do harm to spiders: collectors and zoologists. The human black widow meets her fate when stung to death by a swarm of wasps.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).