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The Black Widow I


    Medium Claire Voyant is holding a seance for the Wagler family, where she promises that in the next hour Mother Wagler's late husband will appear. Upon that fateful tick of the clock, Claire is transformed into the Black Widow and warns of impending doom for them all.

    This development upsets Mother Wagler, as does the fact that Claire, now transformed back to her normal self, hasn't produced her dead husband as promised. Claire curses the Wagler family for their insults, but later muses to herself on what "possessed" her to do and say such things. Heading down a lonely highway, the Wagler's car is blown off the road, causing it to crash. Mother Wagler is killed instantly, and sister Wagler lies dying in her brother James's arms, carrying on about the mediums' curse. She dies as well, and the enraged James goes back to Claire's place and guns her down in cold blood. After James Wagler departs, Satan arrives from Hell and, picking up the just-dead body of Claire Voyant from her own pool of blood, carries her down to Hell. Once there, Satan lays her down on an altar and commands her to arise as the Black Widow! And so she does, garbed now in the same costume she had worn before. Obviously, Satan has been behind all this from the start. Now he beckons her to seek revenge upon the one who slew her. The Black Widow ventures forth from Hell, and, finding the distraught James Wagler on a dock, touches him with the "flames of death." James expires in a most gruesome manner. Returning to Hades, Satan informs the Black Widow that there are more evil souls that she will bring to him.

    Over the course of a few adventures, the Black Widow does exactly that. The Black Widow has features that could be described as skull-like but still very beautiful, except for those skulls in her eyes. With her touch of death, she is indeed a force to be reckoned with as she brings the souls of evil men and woman to suffer for eternity in Satan's realm.


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Last Known Legal Copyright Holder:
Timely Comics 1942
Sightings:
Mystic Comics (1st series) #'s 4, 5 & 7
U.S.A. Comics # 5

First Appearance
:
07/40
Last Appearance: 08/42


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