Comic Title: Phantom Stranger #40
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1975
On Sale Date: September 4, 1975 Newsstand Date September 4, 1975
Source: Comic Reader, #122

Copyright Date October 4, 1975
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1975

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

Title: "The Black Orchid Conspiracy"
Pages: 6

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

Writer: Michael L. Fleisher
Artist: Fred Carrillo

Feature Character(s)

• Black Orchid (disguised as Lisa Patrick in this story; last appearance in Phantom Stranger #39; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #41)

Villain(s)

• The Legion of the Black Orchid (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #39; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #41)
• Karen Jensen, Stefanie Tower, Barbie Henderson, Janet Grant, and Lisa Patrick (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #39; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #41)

Other Character(s)

• Ronnie Kuhn (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #39; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #41)

Comments:
The real Black Orchid is disguised as Lisa Patrick in this story. The real Lisa only appears behind-the-scenes.

This story is continued from the second story of Phantom Stranger #39 and continues in the second story of Phantom Stranger #41.

Synopsis:
Five female criminals have joined together to form the Legion of the Black Orchid. They have convinced Ronnie Kuhn, the daughter of the World Bank president, that they operate as the real Black Orchid and intend for her to join their group. For her first mission Ronnie agrees to help them protect her father's bank. In truth the girls are using Ronnie to get inside information about the bank in order to rob it.

The night of the robbery the girls enter the bank dressed in their Black Orchid costumes. When Ronnie becomes suspicious about the plastic explosives the girls intend to use on the vault door, they crooks grab her. Ronnie is tied up and left behind as the fuse on the explosives burns.