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Created by: Jim Englehart and Jim Starlin 1st appearance: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1; April 1974 Nationality: American Aliases: Black Tiger Team Affiliations: Sons of the Tiger Legal Status: No criminal history Height: 6’3 Weight: 215
Black History Month is the opportunity to recognize the many accomplishments of Black Americans. It is from this foundation of sacrifices that we secure our place in American history. It is from this sacrifice and struggle we carve out our place in
In 1971 with the relaxing of the Comic Code Authority, which served as the oversight and moral enforcer for comics, Marvel took advantage of their dropping their longstanding ban on vampire by publishing the comic The Tomb of Dracula in April 1972.
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Created by: Tony Isabella and Val Mayerik 1st appearance: Supernatural Thrillers #8, August 1974 Aliases Mistress of the Winds Nationality: unrevealed Team Affiliations: Elementals Height: unrevealed Weight: unrevealed Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Skills and abilities: unrevealed Powers: Zephyr possesses the wind and
Created by: Jamie Delano, Alan Davis 1st appearance: Captain Britain #9; 1985 Real Name: Joshua N’Dingi Aliases: Doc Croc, Dr. N’Dingi, Halfling Nationality: Mbangawians Team Affiliations: RCX Legal Status: Ruler of Mbangawi Height: 5’7 Weight: 190lbs Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Relatives: unidentified
Created by: Dwayne McDuffie 1st appearance: Icon #19, 1994 Real Name: unknown Nationality: American Relatives: unknown Group Affiliations: none Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Skills and abilities: none Powers: Superhuman strength and near-invulnerability gained from the event known as the “Big Bang”, which
Created by: Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema 1st appearance: Avengers #69 Death: Marvel Two In One #41 Nationality: African Team Affiliations: Squadron Sinister Legal Status: Criminal Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Height: 5’10” Weight: 200lbs Relatives: none Skills and abilities: college graduate; very intelligent,
Created by: Louise Simonson, Joe St. Pierre (Clay Irons);Christopher Priest and Denys Cowan (Crash) 1st appearance: Steel Annual #2, Year One; 1995 (Clay Irons); Steel #39, 1997 (Reggie Glover/Crash) Nationality: American Aliases: Clay Irons; Reggie Glover Relatives: John Henry Irons (brother) Blondell
Created by: Tom DeFlaco and Sal Buscema 1st appearance: The Amazing Spiderman #272; 1986 Nationality: American Relatives: Matt Beacher (half-brother, deceased) Group Affiliations: Masters of Evil Height: 5”11” Weight: 170 Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Skills and abilities: Skilled chemist Powers: none Weapons:
Created by: Brandon Peterson 1st appearance: Arcanum #2, 1997 Aliases: Baron Samedi, Ghede, Cain, Death Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Skills and abilities: possesses knowledge and skills from tens of thousands of years of living including mastery of all forms of weapons Powers:
Created by: Mark Grunwald 1st appearance: Captain America #388 Nationality: African Team Affiliations: B.A.D. Girls, Femizons Legal Status: unknown Height: 6’2 Weight: 159lbs Eyes: Brown Hair: Bald Relatives: none Skills and abilities: Skilled hand to hand combatant, powerful athlete especially good at
Created by: Mark Gruenwald, David Wohl, and M.C. Wyman 1st appearance: Captain America Annual #12, 1993 Death: Civil War: Frontline #3. 2006 Aliases: Roberto Velasquez, the Battling Bantam Nationality: Puerto Rican Height: 5’5” Weight: 119lbs Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Skills and abilities:
Created by: Kurt Busiek and Patrick Butler 1st appearance: Web of Spiderman #81; 1991 Nationality: American Relatives: Unnamed parents, Rickey Dichinson (brother) Height: 6’1” Weight: 179lbs (188 in armor) Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Skills and abilities: Skilled hand to hand combatant, extensive
The events of the Infinity War has once again brought back into the spotlight one of the iconic black characters in the Marvel Universe. Born Carl Lucas, our man Lucas “Luke” Cage, once known as Power Man, is pulled back into
Created by: Archie Goodwin and George Tuska 1st appearance: Luke Cage, Hero for hire #1, 1972 Nationality: American Legal Status: known criminal Height: 5’9” Weight: 185lbs Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Skills and abilities: Skilled hand to hand combatant; skilled archer Powers: none
Publisher: Marvel Comics Created by: Archie Goodwin and George Tuska 1st appearance: Luke Cage, Hero for hire #1, 1972 Death: Dark Reign: The List-Daredevil, 2010 Nationality: Dominican Real Name: Herman Alverez Relatives: Victor Alverez (son) Reina Alverez (wife, separated) Legal Status: known
Recently Marvel announced the addition of David Alleyne, a.k.a. Prodigy to their Young Avengers line-up. The addition of Prodigy was a welcome one…at first. Marvel announced later that Prodigy has now revealed that he is bi-sexual! This news caused an
In October 2012 Marvel relaunched several of its ongoing series with #1 issues and debuted several new titles. This move was in response to the events stemming from its latest event: AVX. The relaunched titles go under the Marvel Now! banner.
In Sept 2011, the DC Universe undertook the bold initiative to not only relaunch it’s titles with #1 issues, but also to revamp characters, and even redo origins. The company announced it would cut the number of magazines it published down to