Portrayal of black people in comics 1990s. One of the rare contemporary African-American-created and published comics, "Real Deal" depicted Los Angeles underworld life with deadpan visceral humor and gross-out violence (termed "Urban Terror" by the creators). Very few Black female characters were present in superhero comics before the Civil Rights Movement. Afterwards, several notable Black female characters began to appear. One of the most notable Black female character in comics appeared in the Bronze Age of Comic Books. Storm (Ororo Munroe) of the X-Men is introduced as being worshiped as an African goddess, the Professor Xavier quickly reveals her to be a mutant who possesses the
Ultimate X-Men killing Beast, who was killed when a Sentinel attacked the White House during Emma Frost's public disclosure of her school. This made Beast the first dead Ultimate X-Man. As a side note, "Ultimate X-Men" #40 features what Marvel claims to be the first marriage proposal in a comic book letters column, which is answered in "Ultimate X-Men" #44 with a positive response. The third "Ultimate X-Men" writer was Brian K. Vaughan, best known at the time for his work on "". His run was marked by the relative absence of Wolverine as the main character and the re-imagining of second-string