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If they treat black superheroes the same way they treat white superheroes and give them the quality, resources and support, they can be successful.”

“They’ve been selling a myth that female superheroes and black superheroes won’t sell on-screen,” said Sheena Howard, author of the new book “Why Wakanda Matters.” “With ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Black Panther,’ we see that’s just a myth that’s been sold to us.
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Legend has it that someone at Marvel got cold feet about placing an obviously African superhero on its cover for fear of a backlash, and Kirby was ordered to redraw the cover, this time with the mask covering Panther’s entire face.įor years, comic book companies and movie studios have been reticent to put non-white heroes front and center.
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Instead of a full mask covering his face, Kirby drew the Panther with a half mask that left the bottom of his face exposed. Kirby initially drew a different costume than the one we all now know: the one featured in the 2018 film.

Only, even while making an important statement, the team at Marvel were careful to pull their punches.

The character first appeared in the 52nd issue of “Fantastic Four,” bounding his way across the cover, marking a leap forward for superhero diversity and a brave move by Marvel. How ‘Captain America’ failure inspired ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Panther was created by Marvel editor Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and both men later said they were motivated by the realization that there were almost no non-white characters in comics. Such a move would have been unimaginable in 1966, when Black Panther - the comic world’s first mainstream black superhero - made his debut. “Recasting Captain America as a black man is a major step toward … showing that a black man is capable of representing all the same positive qualities we associate with America.” “It is important that all of the abstract ideas that we have assumed define America - heroism, righteousness, strength, perseverance, morality, compassion, exceptionalism - have historically been symbolized exclusively by white male characters,” Brown said. Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) now wields the Captain America shield as Falcon. Brown, a professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, told The Post. “Captain America was conceived to intentionally represent the nation, to literally embody it, and America’s self-conception has always been presented as white - as well as male, straight, able-bodied and so on,” Jeffrey A.
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One aspect the six-episode series will explore is the consequences of the African-American Falcon (Anthony Mackie) having been handed Captain America’s shield at the end of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”įalcon’s turn in the famous stars-and-stripes costume is just the latest in an increasingly wide range of black superheroes, and could be a big symbolic step forward.

The world might be getting a black Captain America.ĭisney+ just launched its second Marvel miniseries, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” spinning off two characters from the world-encompassing Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jackson refuses to be replaced by AI in movies after he dies Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine suit revealed in ‘Deadpool 3’ first lookĭavid Corenswet as Superman is limping DC Studios’ last chance worried playing ‘Iron Man’ might ruin his career
