Black Canary: Best of the Best

Author Tom King
Illustrated by Ryan Sook
Hardcover
$29.99 US
On sale Sep 09, 2025 | 192 Pages | 9781779523907

Comic book superstars Tom King and Ryan Sook present the match of the millennium: beloved superhero Black Canary versus deadly assassin Lady Shiva!

It’s Black Canary versus Lady Shiva to determine who is the single greatest hand-to-hand fighter in the DC Universe! Who will walk away with the title?

Find out as Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (Wonder Woman, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) and Ryan Sook (Legion of Super-Heroes, Seven Soldiers: Zatanna) go six rounds to see if our hero has what it takes to be…the best of the best.

With an opponent as ruthless as Lady Shiva, this fight won’t be an easy one, but luckily, Black Canary has some powerful people in her corner—including her mother, the original Black Canary, ready to train her daughter for the fight of both their lives. And will Batman cheer her on or tell her to throw in the towel?

Exploring Black Canary like never before, this is a self-contained, action-packed character study from Tom King, in the vein of his hits Mister Miracle and The Vision!

This volume collects Black Canary: Best of the Best #1-6.
Tom King is a comic book writer and novelist, best known for his work at DC Comics including Batman, Mister Miracle and The Omega Men. He won Eisner awards for best writer for his work on Mister Miracle and Marvel's Vision. He often relies on his experience as an ex-CIA agent and experiences during the recent conflicts in the Middle East in his writing. King joined the CIA counterterrorism unit after September 11 where he stayed for seven years before writing his first novel, A Once Crowded Sky.

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Comic book superstars Tom King and Ryan Sook present the match of the millennium: beloved superhero Black Canary versus deadly assassin Lady Shiva!

It’s Black Canary versus Lady Shiva to determine who is the single greatest hand-to-hand fighter in the DC Universe! Who will walk away with the title?

Find out as Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (Wonder Woman, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) and Ryan Sook (Legion of Super-Heroes, Seven Soldiers: Zatanna) go six rounds to see if our hero has what it takes to be…the best of the best.

With an opponent as ruthless as Lady Shiva, this fight won’t be an easy one, but luckily, Black Canary has some powerful people in her corner—including her mother, the original Black Canary, ready to train her daughter for the fight of both their lives. And will Batman cheer her on or tell her to throw in the towel?

Exploring Black Canary like never before, this is a self-contained, action-packed character study from Tom King, in the vein of his hits Mister Miracle and The Vision!

This volume collects Black Canary: Best of the Best #1-6.

Author

Tom King is a comic book writer and novelist, best known for his work at DC Comics including Batman, Mister Miracle and The Omega Men. He won Eisner awards for best writer for his work on Mister Miracle and Marvel's Vision. He often relies on his experience as an ex-CIA agent and experiences during the recent conflicts in the Middle East in his writing. King joined the CIA counterterrorism unit after September 11 where he stayed for seven years before writing his first novel, A Once Crowded Sky.

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