Black Panther Issue 1 Review
THE KING AND THE CONQUERED
Exploring The Concept Of Black Heroism
Written by: Ziggiy
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation. Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race. Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
-Marcus Garvey
In July of 1966, the Black Panther debuted within the pages of Fantastic Four #52. He was T’Challa, defender and monarch of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. He was the first black superhero to be introduced within mainstream american comics; he was fierce, intelligent, confident, and most importantly for comic book readers, cool as hell. T’Challa was able to prove his worth by defeating the first family one by one to test THEIR skills, and in the end was portrayed as not only a force to be reckoned with, but to also be respected. Over the course of decades, T’Challa has been through several iterations, most notably from those of Christopher Priest and Reginald Hudlin. Christopher Priest is often cited as the most accomplished and critically acclaimed author of the Panther’s stories, he is to Black Panther as Frank Miller is to Daredevil within the comic fandom. Mysterious, calculating, and always seeming to be two steps ahead of both his foe and his audience, Priest took a character who had been too often relegated to the hell of tokenism, and reinvigorated the essence of what the Panther stood for, regality. Reginald Hudlin gave fans an epic and sweeping saga, which put T’Challa front and center in some of Marvel Comics biggest crossover events of the time, he is also married to one of the most high profile characters in the universe, Ororo Munroe, better known as Storm of the X-Men. For a period, T’Challa’s status as the greatest Monarch in Wakanda’s history was unblemished.
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