Created by Marvel Comics Legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Black Panther is considered the first Black superhero in American mainstream comics. Through a textual analysis, this book narrates the history of the character from his first appearance in 1966-the same year, the Black Panther Party was formed in Oakland, California-through Ta-Nehisi Coates' version in 2015. It tells the story of how Black and white writers envisioned the character between those years, as a Patrice Lumumba to a Sidney Poitier to a Nelson Mandela to a hip-hop cool to a reflective, 21st century king. Along the way, the limitations of white liberalism and the boundless nature of the Black imagination are revealed. Marvel's Black Panther is the first textual study of a superhero comic book character, examining its writers and the stories they have created over a fifty year period.
Inhalt
FOREWORD
Makani Themba, community activist/strategist........................................... i
INTRODUCTION
Black Panther vs. White Panther...................................................................v
CHAPTER ONE
From Patrice Lumumba to Sidney Poitier: Early Fantastic Four and
Avengers Appearances ..................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER TWO
The Jungle Book-Don McGregor Creates His Own Africa..............17
CHAPTER THREE
The Finished Man-Don McGregor (Almost) Completes His "Panther Novel"
..............................................................................................33
CHAPTER FOUR
The Return of the Kings-The Amazing and Wacky Adventures of
Jack Kirby's Panther.......................................................................................41
CHAPTER FIVE
The Client Was a Man of Remarkable Focus-A Panther and a Priest.................................................................................................................55
CHAPTER SIX
The Spy King-How Christopher Priest's Panther Forever Shook Up the Avengers....................................................................................................91
CHAPTER SEVEN
"Bad Mutha"-Reginald Hudlin's Uncompromised Royal Black
(Super-) Man and the Unbridled Black Imagination...........................105
CHAPTER EIGHT
Side-Swipes-The New York Ghost Cop and the Wakandan Princess
as "Replacement" Panthers ........................................................................123
CHAPTER NINE
The (Black) Man Without Fear-When T'Challa Replaced
Daredevil .......................................................................................................135
CHAPTER TEN
Between the World and Him-Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther....145
CONCLUSION
The Panther In Captain America: Civil War..........................................159
AFTERWORD
Dr. Gregory Carr, Chair, Africana Studies Department, Howard
University.......................................................................................................169
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...............................................................177