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BIRDS OF PREY

BIRDS OF PREY #75 December 2004 [$2.95] Cover Credit: Jason Pearson (pencils, inks)

First Story: "Breathless" (20 Pages)

Credits: Gail Simone (plot, script); Ed Benes (pencils, inks); Jared K. Fletcher (letters); Hi-Fi Design (colors, separations); Harvey Richards (assistant editor); Joan Hilty (edits)

Feature Characters: Black Canary II (last in the second story in this issue), Oracle II (last in Batman #633, appears in flashback in Detective Comics #800 between pages of this issue), Huntress II

Guest Star: Ted Kord (last in ..., next in ...)

Supporting Character: Lady Blackhawk (last in second story in this issue, next in #77)

Villain: Tom Paul Jussub

Other Character: Ron (an employee of Kord Industries)

Comment: This story takes place between War Games and Identity Crisis

Synopsis:

Following the gang war in Gotham and Oracle's desperate attempt to save Batman, the Clock Tower is rubble and she no longer has a home. She decides to leave Gotham, and turns to Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle, for help - he assists her to adapt a hi-tech plane for their use. Together with Black Canary and Huntress, she brings drug baron Tom Paul Jussub to justice and the trio leave Gotham behind them, on their new base piloted by the legendary Zinda Blake, Lady Blackhawk. They head towards Dayton, Ohio, and Oracle reveals that she doesn't plan to return to Gotham for quite some time.

Second Story: "There Would Be No Spring" (10 Pages)

Credits: Gail Simone (plot, script); Eduardo Barreto (pencils); Andrew Pepoy (inks); Jared K. Fletcher (letters); Hi-Fi Design (colors, separations); Harvey Richards (assistant editor); Joan Hilty (edits)

Feature Character: Lady Blackhawk (last in ..., next in first story in this issue)

Guest Star: Black Canary II (last in ..., next in the first story in this issue)

Other Characters: Todd (a member of middle management at Blackhawk Inc.)

Synopsis:

Life is not sweet for Zinda Blake, Lady Blackhawk. She has recently attended the funeral of Wu Cheng, the only other surviving Blackhawk, and she feels out of place in the modern world. The new company based around Blackhawk finds it hard having her around, and she is rarely allowed to pilot a plane. Until, that is, Black Canary comes to her with an offer. With a little bit of help from one of her few close allies at Blackhawk Inc., Zinda absconds with a new plane, the Citation X. From now on, she'll be piloting for Oracle and her agents.