Black Venus

Real Name: Mary Roche

Identity/Class: Human, technology user

Occupation: Physical therapist

Affiliations: Lieutenant Bill Evans (boyfriend)

Enemies: Unknown

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unidentified South Pacific Island

First Appearance: Contact Comics #5 (Aviation Press, March 1945)

Powers/Abilities: Skilled aviator

History: Mary Roche was born in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a few years after the Wright Brothers made their historic first flight there, and grew up with a lifelong fascination with aviation. At the outbreak of WWII, she became a nurse and was stationed to a US held Pacific Island, but soon came to realise that black marketeers and other criminals were taking advantage of the wounded. Mary created a costume and obtained a modified fighter plane to become the crime fighting Black Venus.

Comments: Black Venus lasted for six issues of Contact Comics, but was revived as one of the Americomics heroes in the 1980's.

CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with

• any other Black heroines

• Venus, Big Bang

• Venus, Timely Comics hero

• Venus de Milo, TMNT

• Venus Bluegenes, Genetic Infantry woman

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