Comic Title: Black Canary Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2001
On Sale Date: January 24, 2001 Direct Market Date January 24, 2001
Source: Previews, Vol. 10 #11 (#143)

Direct Market Date January 24, 2001
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Direct Market Date January 24, 2001
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: January 24

Direct Market Date January 31, 2001
Source: Comic Shop News, #705

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 228
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Riddle of the Roses"
Pages: 7

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

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Bernard Sachs

Reprinted From:
Flash Comics #102 (1948)

Feature Character(s)

• Black Canary (last appearance in Flash Comics #101; next appearance in All-Star Comics #44)

Supporting Character(s)

• Larry Lance (last appearance in Flash Comics #101; next appearance in Flash Comics #103)

Villain(s)

• Nelson Lang (a millionaire's nephew; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Lang's partners (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Charles Lang (a millionaire; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Larry Lance is hired by millionaire Charles Lang to recover a stolen emerald. Meanwhile, Lang's nephew Nelson orders every single rose in Dinah Drake's flower shop delivered to his house. When making the delivery, Dinah and Larry find crooks in the Lang home. The crooks escape despite their efforts to stop them.

Larry and Dinah, as the Black Canary, return to the flower shop where they find Nelson murdered. They continue on to Charles Lang's summer home, where they find the crooks again. They rescue Lang and apprehend the gang.

Nelson had stolen the emerald, intending to turn it over to the gang. When he changed his mind, he hid the emerald in one of Dinah's roses. Then the gang murdered him.