black lightning was the first black superhero in dc.
black lightning was the first black superhero in dc.
who was the first black superhero in dc?
black lightning
dc comics' first black superhero to star in his own series was black lightning. he debuted in his self-titled series in april 1977. he was jefferson pierce, an olympic athlete turned inner-city school teacher. created by tony isabella and artist trevor von eeden, he toted a voltage-generating belt and a white mask. dc's young superhero team the teen titans saw supporting character mal duncan, who first appeared in "teen titans" #26 in 1970, become the superhero guardian in "teen titans" #44 (nov. 1976). he was quickly joined by dc's first female african-american superhero, bumblebee (appearing from "teen titans" #46 as karen beecher, and from #48, june 1977, as bumblebee). three years later, the formation of the new teen titans would see the introduction of victor stone as the superhero cyborg ("dc comics presents" #26, oct. 1980). created by writer marv wolfman and artist george pérez, cyborg would later have his own title and has more recently been a member of the justice league.
portrayal of black people in comics
in 1966, marvel comics introduced the black panther, an african monarch who became the first non-caricatured black superhero. the first african-american superhero, the falcon, followed in 1969, and three years later, luke cage, a self-styled "hero-for-hire", became the first black superhero to star in his own series. in 1989, the monica rambeau incarnation of captain marvel was the first female black superhero from a major publisher to get her own title in a special one-shot issue. in 1971, red wolf became the first native american in the superheroic tradition to headline a series. in 1973, shang-chi became the first prominent asian superhero to star in an american comic book (kato had been a secondary character of the "green hornet" media franchise series since its inception in the 1930s.). kitty pryde, a member of the x-men, was an openly jewish superhero in mainstream american comic books as early as 1978.
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