Appearing in "Black Lightning"
Featured Characters:
- Black Lightning
(First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
Adversaries:
- The 100
- Joey Toledo
- Tobias Whale (Cameo)
- Manny (Single appearance)[1]
- Roscoe (Single appearance)[1]
Other Characters:
- Earl Clifford (First appearance; dies)
- Julie
- Principal Chapin (First appearance)
Locations:
Items:
- Electric Power Belt (First appearance)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Black Lightning"
- Synopsis not yet written
Notes
- This issue shipped on January 3rd, 1977.
- First appearance of all characters except for Peter Gambi.
- The framing sequence for this issue chronologically takes place immediately following the main story.
- Black Lightning makes a chronologically earlier appearance in Black Lightning #6.
- The 100 appeared last in Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane #130.
- The Whale appears next in Black Lightning #3.
- Issue includes a "Lightning Bolts" column, which serves as a newspaper article chronicling the death of Earl Clifford from this issue.
- Includes Daily Planet column Volume 77, Issue 1.
Trivia
- Artist Trevor von Eeden was only seventeen-years-old when he began penciling this series.
- Peter Gambi is the brother of Paul Gambi, the tailor who designs the costumes for Flash's Rogues Gallery.
See Also
Recommended Reading
Links and References
- Black Lightning at Wikipedia
- Black Lightning at DCU Guide
- Black Lightning at DC Indexes
- Black Lightning at Unca Cheeks
- Black Lightning (Volume 1) series index at DC Indexes
- Black Lightning (Volume 1) series index at Comicbookdb.com
- Black Lightning (Volume 1) series index at the Grand Comics Database
- Black Lightning (Volume 1) series index at Dark Mark's Indexing Domain
- Black Lightning (Volume 2) series index at DCU Guide
- Black Lightning (Volume 2) series index at DC Indexes
- Black Lightning (Volume 2) series index at Comicbookdb.com
- Black Lightning: Year One series index at Comicbookdb.com