{"id":10759,"date":"2014-09-16T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:02:42","slug":"comics-deserving-a-relaunch-day-2-black-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10759","title":{"rendered":"The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit &#8211; Comics That Deserve a Second (Or First) Look!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z091614blackterror_cov2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>The Black Terror<strong>: Seduction of Deceit<\/strong><\/b> was a three issue limited series created by writers<b>\u00a0<strong>Beau Smith &amp; Chuck Dixon<\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>and artist\u00a0<b><strong>Dan Brereton.<\/strong><\/b> Each issue consisted of 48 pages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This series took place\u00a0in an <strong>alternate universe<\/strong> where<strong> organized crime<\/strong> had become a <strong>legitimate enterprise<\/strong>.\u00a0 In this hard-boiled setting, the <strong>Black Terror<\/strong> waged a <strong>one man war<\/strong> against crime.\u00a0 Despite his best efforts, the <strong>Black Terror<\/strong> realized that he wasn\u2019t making a dent in the criminal underworld.\u00a0 So he decided that the only way to take down the organization was from within.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To this end,\u00a0he \u201cdid in\u201d a couple of low level hoods and began to work his way up into the organization.\u00a0 The mobsters\u00a0only knew him as <strong>Ryan Delvecchio<\/strong>, a tough, on-the-rise thug; not his alter-ego, the criminal killer known as The <strong>Black Terror<\/strong>.\u00a0 When <strong>Delvecchio<\/strong> is hand-picked to become part of an elite <strong>Mafia hit squad<\/strong>, he\u2019s in the perfect position to take out the major players in organized crime\u2026 that is if the Feds don\u2019t kill him first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s a crime this limited series has never been collected in a nice hardcover edition.\u00a0 I always hold out hope that will change.\u00a0 Until we get <strong>The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit<\/strong> omnibus we deserve, it&#8217;s time to give the series a second (or first if you haven&#8217;t already) look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit The Black Terror: Seduction of Deceit was a three issue limited series created by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-crime","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40323,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions\/40323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}