Marvel's Black Panther (eBook)

A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates

Todd Steven Burroughs (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
250 Seiten
Diasporic Africa Press (Verlag)
978-1-937306-65-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 1966the same year, the Black Panther Party was formed in Oakland, Californiathrough 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. Marvels 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.

Inhalt

FOREWORDMakani Themba, community activist/strategist........................................... iINTRODUCTIONBlack Panther vs. White Panther...................................................................vCHAPTER ONEFrom Patrice Lumumba to Sidney Poitier: Early Fantastic Four andAvengers Appearances ..................................................................................... 1CHAPTER TWOThe Jungle Book—Don McGregor Creates His Own Africa..............17CHAPTER THREEThe Finished Man—Don McGregor (Almost) Completes His “Panther Novel”..............................................................................................33CHAPTER FOURThe Return of the Kings—The Amazing and Wacky Adventures ofJack Kirby’s Panther.......................................................................................41CHAPTER FIVEThe Client Was a Man of Remarkable Focus—A Panther and a  Priest.................................................................................................................55CHAPTER SIXThe Spy King—How Christopher Priest’s Panther Forever Shook Up the Avengers....................................................................................................91CHAPTER SEVEN“Bad Mutha”—Reginald Hudlin's Uncompromised Royal Black(Super-) Man and the Unbridled Black Imagination...........................105CHAPTER EIGHTSide-Swipes—The New York Ghost Cop and the Wakandan Princessas “Replacement” Panthers ........................................................................123CHAPTER NINEThe (Black) Man Without Fear—When T’Challa ReplacedDaredevil .......................................................................................................135CHAPTER TENBetween the World and Him—Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther....145CONCLUSIONThe Panther In Captain America: Civil War..........................................159AFTERWORDDr. Gregory Carr, Chair, Africana Studies Department, HowardUniversity.......................................................................................................169ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...............................................................177

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: American • Black Panther • Comic books • Jack Kirby • Marvel Comics • Stan Lee • Superhero • Ta-Nehisi Coates • textual analysis • writers
• ISBN-10: 1-937306-65-8 / 1937306658
• ISBN-13: 978-1-937306-65-6 / 9781937306656