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
X-Men: Deadly Genesis "Uncanny X-Men" #475 in a 12-part story called "The Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire". In addition to the main plotline about the X-Men and the Mystery Mutant, each issue of the series features a backup story introducing a new mutant character. In each of these, after the character learns of their powers, they use them to overcome a challenge in their life, which brings them to the attention of a woman who specializes in helping mutant youths. That woman is Moira MacTaggert. In the current storyline, it is revealed in that Petra, Sway, Darwin, and Kid Vulcan were