Publication History
The Black Dragon Society is based on a real world WW II organization of the same name; however, this society wasn't nearly as sinister as its comic book counterparts. Three different comics companies used the Black Dragon Society as villains in the 1940s, they were National Comics (DC Comics), Fawcett Comics and Quality Comics.
Interesting enough DC Comics came to own the other two companies so all the different incarnations of the Black Dragon Society now belong to them. The Fawcett Comics version debuted in Master Comics #21 (December 1941), it had Minute-Man fighting against the Society, and was created by Bill Woolfolk and Charles Sultan. The DC Comics version debuted in All Star Comics #12 (August 1942) and was created by Gardner Fox and Jack Burnley, it had the "The Black Dragon Menace" in which a Japanese spy ring called the Black Dragon Society of Japan steals eight American inventions and kidnaps their inventors. And the Quality Comics version debuted in Military Comics #24 (November 1943), and was created by Ted Udall and Vernon Henkel.
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