Story: "Sensei & Student Part Five: Murder & Mystery" (22 Pages)

Credits:

Gail Simone (plot, script)
Michael Golden (pencils)
Mike Manley
Scott Hanna and Michael Golden (inks)
Rob Leigh (letters)
Hi-Fi (colors)
Lysa Hawkins (edits)

Feature Character:

Black Canary II

Guest Star:

Black Canary I (in flashback)

Supporting Characters:

Larry Lance
James Gordon (both in flashback)

Villains:

Alfredo Bertinelli
Allessandro
The Blonde Slasher (all in flashback)

Other Characters:

Wilcox (a police officer)
Laurel Burton (a librarian; both in flashback)

Comment: Continued from previous issue and continues in the next issue

Comment: The flashback portion takes place during a period when Black Canary I was mostly retired from crimefighting, but before the birth of her daughter.

Synopsis:

Black Canary turns to some of her mother's case files as she feels her current difficulties, caused by Senator Pullman it seems, have something to do with an old grudge between Pullman and her mother. She reads about the case of 'the Blonde Slasher' who killed blonde women (making them blonde if necessary), a case where her mother was helped greatly by a librarian. The killer got away but stopped killing. While reading the file, Canary makes a connection between a phrase of the killer and something said to her recently and realises that the Blonde Slasher is none other than Senator Pullman's father.