The character was relaunched again in 1993 as Flora Black, with the ability to manipulate pheromones and control minds, making her a femme fatale.

Black Orchid subsequently appeared sporadically, including cameos in Crisis on Infinite Earths, Blue Devil, Deadshot, and Invasion!.

In Adventure Comics #429, Barry DeMorte hypothesizes that either yoga master Lucinda "Cindy" Harper or anti-gravity specialist Daphne Wingate is Black Orchid, and he kidnaps both.

In The Phantom Stranger #38, writer Michael Fleisher posited racecar driver Ronnie Kuhn as a possible secret identity for Black Orchid.

[5] In a non-canon Super Friends comic, civilian Lisa Patrick believes that Black Orchid is a Kryptonian and attempts to kill her with Kryptonite.

[6] In Blue Devil Annual #1, Madame Xanadu and Phantom Stranger provide competing origins for Black Orchid, which respectively parody Daredevil and Spider-Man.

[citation needed] In 1988, the character was relaunched in the three-issue miniseries Black Orchid, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean.

The series identifies Orchid as Susan Linden-Thorne, who is killed by her abusive husband Carl and returns as a human-plant hybrid who believes itself to be her.

Written by Dick Foreman, it saw the second version of the character use pheromone manipulation as mind control to become a femme fatale, breaking and marrying millionaire Elliot Weems to claim his fortune and company business as her own.

Suzy features prominently in The Black Orchid Annual #1, part 2 of Vertigo's The Children's Crusade crossover.