| Black Cobra | |
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Real Name |
Steve Drake |
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First Appearance |
Black Cobra #1 (October-November 1954) |
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Original Publisher |
Ajax-Farrell |
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Created by |
L. B. Cole |
Origin[]
Steve Drake, an FBI Agent, was a grim Cold War avenger known as the Black Cobra. He was assisted by his sidekick, the Cobra Kid.
Powers and Abilities[]
He has no superpowers, but his costume was made from a special bulletproof plastic Drake had invented, as well as suction cups in his boots which allowed him to run down buildings. Cobra had a garage underneath his house where he kept his black "Super-racer" car.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Black Cobra #1-3
Notes[]
- The character was a re-printed version of Chesler's previous Black Cobra.
- In 2010, Vito Delsante & Ricardo Vinancio created several open source versions of the Black Cobra, the fourth of which was based on this version.