Marvel's Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Burroughs, Todd Steven
Published: 02/14/2018
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN: 9781937306649
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d