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New york times bestselling author of the stone barrington series. Theres a wellknown anecdote to the effect that when gaiman asked his dc editor if he could do a black orchid story, he then had to explain to her who black orchid was. Orchid comic read orchid comic online in high quality. Andis comic express comicversand comic abos us comics. Black orchid is a relatively obscure dc comics superheroine whose big moment of fame came in a miniseries written by neil gaiman, with art by dave mckean. Black orchid by oliver nome superhero books, comic.
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Too bad, because if they are all as good as this, they would be worth reading. Books containg novella collections indicate the number of novellas included in the volume in parenthesis. Written by dick foreman, with art by rebecca guay and stan woch. When the story opens, she is about to marry her boyfriend, jackson oxenhandler.
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