Saturday 8 June 2013

Black Bat prose in "Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon"

First Comics News revealed Moonstone Comics' October (already?) solicitations recently.  Here's an abbreviated version:
The Domino Lady: “Sex as a Weapon”
Interior Art: Ver Curtis
222pgs, Squarebound, 6” x 9”, $16.95

New printing of this long sold-out collection!

Nine all-new tales of one of the world’s first female masked crime fighters, by Nancy Holder, Chuck Dixon, CJ Henderson, Martin Powell, Ron Fortier, James  Chambers, Bobby Nash, Gail McCabe. Introduction: Mystery Writers of America Raven Award winner Joan Hansen!

Stunned and enraged by the murder of her crusading politician father, beautiful socialite Ellen Patrick becomes determined to bring her father’s killers to justice…at any cost.  A talented Berkley graduate, she knows that to truly fight the men who killed her father she must break all the rules.  Donning a distinctive white dress and a black domino mask, she becomes The Domino Lady, one of the sexiest –and most elusive—crime fighters of all time.

Guest-starring: SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE BLACK BAT , & AIRBOY!
I removed the cover artist's name because the cover itself was not displayed.  The one at upper right is from the original hardcover edition of the book.  Being that this solicitation is for a reprint, I'm not 100% that the same cover will be used.

I had written to Moonstone recently to find out which books featured their version of the Black Bat. I was told to expect the Black Bat "in the pages of the upcoming 'The Spider's Web' and 'Spider/Domino Lady'.

There already has been a Spider/Domino Lady book, but its solicitation says nothing about a Black Bat appearance therein.  Presumably, based on the wording of Moonstone's response, there's another such book on the way.

While it's good to see The Black Bat show up in various Moonstone books, I'd be more interested in seeing his own series continue.  That I know of, the second issue of his own has never been released and the story in the first issue was never completed. For those who may have missed it, here's an unused cover below (or if it was ever put in proper use, by all means someone draw my attention to it).


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