The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit – Comics That Deserve a Second (Or First) Look!

The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit

The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit was a three issue limited series created by writers Beau Smith & Chuck Dixon and artist Dan Brereton. Each issue consisted of 48 pages.

This series took place in an alternate universe where organized crime had become a legitimate enterprise.  In this hard-boiled setting, the Black Terror waged a one man war against crime.  Despite his best efforts, the Black Terror realized that he wasn’t making a dent in the criminal underworld.  So he decided that the only way to take down the organization was from within.

To this end, he “did in” a couple of low level hoods and began to work his way up into the organization.  The mobsters only knew him as Ryan Delvecchio, a tough, on-the-rise thug; not his alter-ego, the criminal killer known as The Black Terror.  When Delvecchio is hand-picked to become part of an elite Mafia hit squad, he’s in the perfect position to take out the major players in organized crime… that is if the Feds don’t kill him first.

It’s a crime this limited series has never been collected in a nice hardcover edition.  I always hold out hope that will change.  Until we get The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit omnibus we deserve, it’s time to give the series a second (or first if you haven’t already) look.