Comic Title: Phantom Stranger #38
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1975
On Sale Date: May 8, 1975 Newsstand Date May 8, 1975
Source: Comic Reader, #118

Copyright Date May 6, 1975
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1975

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Joe Orlando

Title: "The Secret of the Black Orchid"
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Black Orchid (of Earth-1)

Writer: Michael L. Fleisher
Artist: Fred Carrillo

Feature Character(s)

• Black Orchid (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #36; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #39)

Villain(s)

• Freddy, Jerry, Maxie, and an unnamed man (a criminal gang; no further appearances)
• Roxanne (Freddy's girlfriend; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ronnie Kuhn (a race car driver; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #39)
• Hank (a track employee; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in the second story of Phantom Stranger #39.

Synopsis:
A gang of crooks led by Freddy prepares for a jewel heist. Freddy drills his team repeatedly on the plan. When the real robbery takes place, the Black Orchid appears and captures most of the gang. Freddy gets away and returns to his hideout. He finds that his girlfriend, Roxanne, has been tied to the bed. The Black Orchid had impersonated her to get close to the gang. Police soon arrive to arrest Freddy.

Later at a race track, female driver Ronnie Kuhn finishes a test drive. She then returns home where she hears a news report of the gang's capture. She then puts on a Black Orchid costume.