Black Dragon Society (comics)
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Black Dragon Society, art by Tom Grummett
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
All Star Comics #12 (August 1942) (DC) Master Comics #21 (Fawcett) (December 1941) Military Comics #24 (November 1943) (Quality) |
| Created by |
Gardner Fox (writer) Jack Burnley (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Terrorist |
| Leader(s) | Dragon King |
The Black Dragon Society are currently a group of fictional DC Comics ecoterrorists originally introduced in 1942's All Star Comics issue #12 (August 1942) as Japanese saboteurs. They were created by Gardner Fox and Jack Burnley.
The Black Dragon Society is based on a real world WW II organization of the same name; however, this society wasn't nearly as sinister as its comic book counterparts. Three different comics companies used the Black Dragon Society as villains in the 1940s, they were National Comics (DC Comics), Fawcett Comics and Quality Comics.
Interesting enough DC Comics came to own the other two companies so all the different incarnations of the Black Dragon Society now belong to them. The Fawcett Comics version debuted in Master Comics #21 (December 1941), it had Minute-Man fighting against the Society, and was created by Bill Woolfolk and Charles Sultan. The DC Comics version debuted in All Star Comics #12 (August 1942) and was created by Gardner Fox and Jack Burnley, it had the "The Black Dragon Menace" in which a Japanese spy ring called the Black Dragon Society of Japan steals eight American inventions and kidnaps their inventors. And the Quality Comics version debuted in Military Comics #24 (November 1943), and was created by Ted Udall and Vernon Henkel.
The Justice Battalion are given orders to retrieve eight stolen military weapons, and subdue the agents of the Black Dragon Society who had orchestrated the thefts. Starman took on a huge dirigible which acted as a flying aircraft carrier and the planes it housed. The Society, loyal to Imperial Japan, was to use the planes to attack an American city but Starman prevented this. Because of Johnny Thunder's bumbling the whole Battalion was transported to the American HQ of the Black Dragon Society and, after a quick fight and a call to the US Army, the threat posed by the Black Dragons was over.
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