Comic Title: Detective Comics #442
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1974
On Sale Date: May 30, 1974 Newsstand Date May 30, 1974
Source: Comic Reader, #106

Copyright Date May 30, 1974
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1974

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.60
Page Count: 96
Editor: Archie Goodwin

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Huntress of the Highway"
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Black Canary (of Earth-2)

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Flash Comics #92 (1948)

Feature Character(s)

• Black Canary (last appearance in Flash Comics #91; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25)

Supporting Character(s)

• Larry Lance (next appearance in Flash Comics #93)

Villain(s)

• A female hijacker and her men (no further appearances)

Comments:
This is Black Canary's first solo adventure.

This story establishes Black Canary's Dinah Drake identity as a flower shop owner. It also reveals that she is a natural brunette wearing a blonde wig.

Synopsis:
Detective Larry Lance visits a flower shop owned by Dinah Drake. Later, a woman orders a funeral wreath for Larry. Dinah, secretly the Black Canary, believes Larry has been killed by a gang of hijackers. She follows a delivery truck to find the hijackers only to find Larry instead. Both are knocked out and sent to their death's, but Black Canary breaks loose. She and Larry then return to stop the hijackers.