{"id":12976,"date":"2010-08-18T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2012-09-26T03:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T09:53:58","slug":"black-history-in-comics-luke-cage-gets-noted-for-being-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/black-history-in-comics-luke-cage-gets-noted-for-being-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History in Comics: Luke Cage Gets Noted for Being First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You thought this series was long forgotten didn&#8217;t you? We didn&#8217;t forget. Just needed time to marshal our forces. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?tag=black-history-in-comics\">Black History in Comics<\/a> cannot be contained inside the smallest month of the year. History is always happening. It&#8217;s too big to care about months.<\/p>\n<p>Our first meeting with Luke Cage happened in the pages of Power Man(Luke Cage) and Iron Fist(Danny Rand. He didn&#8217;t make much of an impression then. Nowadays, writers like Brian Michael Bendis can&#8217;t stop admitting their <a href=\"http:\/\/scans-daily.dreamwidth.org\/1153318.html?thread=35109926\" class=\"external external_icon\">man-crush on writing the character<\/a>.  Maybe it&#8217;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&#8217;s &#8220;how he rolls.&#8221; This is only a wild mass guess. We don&#8217;t know the mind of Bendis.<\/p>\n<p>We do know Cage&#8217;s appearances in the pages of Bendis&#8217; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alias_%28comics%29\" class=\"external external_icon\">Alias<\/a><\/em> were priceless.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a screen cap of a school project denoting the timeline of notable, and less well known, events in Marvel Comics history.<\/p>\n<p>Right there between &#8216;zombie&#8217; and the &#8216;no prize,&#8217; Marvel gives the first black superhero his own comic.<\/p>\n<p>Now of all of DC and Marvel and the Independants in the market today we have to wonder, &#8216;how many of those comics have a black character as the lead protagonist?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, we wonder about this and need your help in figuring it out.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=12976#more-12976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ScreenShot181.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"We&#039;re still voting for you, Isaiah Mustafa, to be movie Luke Cage.\" width=\"550\" height=\"659\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ScreenShot181.png 550w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ScreenShot181-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The full graphic design timeline below the cut.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineschools.org\/blog\/marvel\" class=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlineschools.org\/blog\/marvel\/marvel.jpg\"  width=\"500\"  border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ComicAttack\/statuses\/21462007624\" class=\"external external_icon\">comic attack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You thought this series was long forgotten didn&#8217;t you? We didn&#8217;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&#8217;s too big to care about months. Our first meeting with Luke Cage happened in the pages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,17],"tags":[1954,2693,967,671,3032,2322,527],"class_list":["post-12976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-history","tag-black-history-in-comics","tag-luke-cage","tag-made-mine-marvel","tag-marvel","tag-school-project","tag-thats-interesting-internet","tag-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12976"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18091,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions\/18091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}