Marvel's Black Panther (eBook)

FOREWORDMakani Themba, community activist/strategist........................................... iINTRODUCTIONBlack Panther vs. White Panther...................................................................vCHAPTER ONEFrom Patrice Lumumba to Sidney Poitier: Early Fantastic Four andAvengers Appearances ..................................................................................... 1CHAPTER TWOThe Jungle Book—Don McGregor Creates His Own Africa..............17CHAPTER THREEThe Finished Man—Don McGregor (Almost) Completes His “Panther Novel”..............................................................................................33CHAPTER FOURThe Return of the Kings—The Amazing and Wacky Adventures ofJack Kirby’s Panther.......................................................................................41CHAPTER FIVEThe Client Was a Man of Remarkable Focus—A Panther and a  Priest.................................................................................................................55CHAPTER SIXThe Spy King—How Christopher Priest’s Panther Forever Shook Up the Avengers....................................................................................................91CHAPTER SEVEN“Bad Mutha”—Reginald Hudlin's Uncompromised Royal Black(Super-) Man and the Unbridled Black Imagination...........................105CHAPTER EIGHTSide-Swipes—The New York Ghost Cop and the Wakandan Princessas “Replacement” Panthers ........................................................................123CHAPTER NINEThe (Black) Man Without Fear—When T’Challa ReplacedDaredevil .......................................................................................................135CHAPTER TENBetween the World and Him—Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther....145CONCLUSIONThe Panther In Captain America: Civil War..........................................159AFTERWORDDr. Gregory Carr, Chair, Africana Studies Department, HowardUniversity.......................................................................................................169ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...............................................................177