Publisher: DC Comics
Created by: Jeffrey Scott, Carmine Infantino and Bob Kane
1st appearance: All New Super Friends- September 10, 1977
Nationality: American
Team Affiliations: Super Friends
Legal Status: Unknown
Height: 6’3 Weight: Unknown
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown
Relatives: Unknown
Skills and abilities: Unknown
Powers: He had the ability to generate electricity from his body, usually directed through his hands. He could also transform his body or portions of his body into pure electricity to fly or move at accelerated speeds. These accelerated speeds allowed him to escape a black hole and even travel through time.
Biography
Created for and used on the super friends TV show when they couldn’t use Black Lightning due to disputes between dc comics and Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella. He was created to add diversity to the otherwise pure white cast of the super friends TV show. He would eventually be replaced by Cyborg a more established Black Superhero from DC comics.
Recently he was seen in an alternate time in DC one Million and a version of him was on Justice League Unlimited.
Always liked this one . Thank you for the posting.
Always liked this character Thank you for the post
Black Lightning? Is that you…. Or Static Shock in cosplay
Haha..
Yea I always thought of Black Vulcan was the original lightning bolt super hero & Black Lightning was the replacement but I love the character as well..
I love black Vulcan. I just got my black Vulcan costume made this year and I can’t wait to wear my costume on Halloween night.Black Vulcan is my favorite and my inspiration. I wear my costume proud in honor of buster Jones.
I’m glad people are talking about black Vulcan . I just wish black Vulcan had his own action live tv series like arrow and flash tv series. I think channel 6 cw should take this in consideration.or have black Vulcan in a movie. Like shaquille as steel and Halle berry as catwoman.
That’s why I’m wearing my black Vulcan costume. Cause I want to be the black Vulcan. But no one could ever replace buster Jones aka the real black Vulcan.people seen my pictures of me as black Vulcan and say that I look like him. If you look up JarrietFair on Facebook. You will see my black Vulcan costume.. and judge for yourself. Women say that they love my costume and that black Vulcan has cute legs for a super hero.. I think I will win a prize for best costume I can honestly hope.
I TOO WOULD LIKE TO SEE A REBOOT OF BLACK VULCAN(SHOULD BE VULTAN) AND ALTHOUGH HIS POWERS ARE SIMILAR TO BLACK LIGHTNING, HE CAN TRANSFORM TO PURE ENERGY,(AT LEAST PART OF HIMSELF), WHICH MAKES HIM MORE POWERFUL THAN BLACK LIGHTNING. IT WOULD BE INDEED AWESOME IF HE WERE BROUGHT BACK…………ALL WE NEED IS AN ARTIST ANA DREAM.
Interesting info here…the lead time for producing animation in the 70s was usually more than a year. Black Lightning’s first comic book went on sale in January, 1977. Black Vulcan debuted on TV in September.
Also, Carmine Infantino, credited as the co-creator of Black Lightning, had been fired by DC Comics from his publisher’s post, and didn’t work for them again until 1981, so if he had a hand in creating Black Vulcan, then it had to have been done prior to his firing, in January 1976.
Even though the story about Black Vulcan being created due to a rights dispute over Black Lightning, the timeline doesn’t seem to add up.