You thought this series was long forgotten didn’t you? We didn’t forget. Just needed time to marshal our forces.

Black History in Comics cannot be contained inside the smallest month of the year. History is always happening. It’s too big to care about months.

Our first meeting with Luke Cage happened in the pages of Power Man(Luke Cage) and Iron Fist(Danny Rand. He didn’t make much of an impression then. Nowadays, writers like Brian Michael Bendis can’t stop admitting their man-crush on writing the character. Maybe it’s some kind of wish fulfillment in having a strong character being able to say or do damn near anything to anybody. Then that character get away with it because that’s “how he rolls.” This is only a wild mass guess. We don’t know the mind of Bendis.

We do know Cage’s appearances in the pages of Bendis’ Alias were priceless.

Below is a screen cap of a school project denoting the timeline of notable, and less well known, events in Marvel Comics history.

Right there between ‘zombie’ and the ‘no prize,’ Marvel gives the first black superhero his own comic.

Now of all of DC and Marvel and the Independants in the market today we have to wonder, ‘how many of those comics have a black character as the lead protagonist?’

Seriously, we wonder about this and need your help in figuring it out.

The full graphic design timeline below the cut.
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