Are there enough black superheroes in Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse or any other catalogue? Sometimes it’s easier to name green or red (Hulk, Vision, Martian Manhunter, etc) heroes than it is to name a black one.
That said, the comic industry has been updating itself and it is less unusual to have a black superhero these days. There are, after all, two black Green Lanterns (Earth humans, too). To extend the debate we could point out that too often the black superhero is just a “black copy” of a white hero. Would you agree?
The purpose of this post is two-fold; firstly to remind ourselves there are some great black superhero (and villain) characters and secondly to try and work out who is the most famous.
This list is not definitive but it is large. Did someone get missed out? Make their case in the comment box below!
Want a better look at those portraits?
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- Azrael (Michael Washington Lane)
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- Bishop
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- Black Panther
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- Blade
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- Cloak
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- Cyborg
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- Darwin
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- Doctor Mist
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- Falcon
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- Green Lantern (John Stewart)
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- Green Lantern (Simon Baz)
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- Hancock
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- Luke Cage
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- Nick Fury
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- Shadowman
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- Spawn
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- Spider-man (Miles Morales)
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- Storm
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- War Machine
I thought i’d take a second to draft a reply to this article “Are there enough black superheroes in Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse or any other catalogue?” Firstly there is no objective measure of enough, so the answer is yes there is enough. There was enough when there were zero, there are enough when some existed & there would be enough if we replaced every character with a black character. Since the measure of a character has nothing to do with skin colour & everything to do with being interesting. “To extend the debate we could point out that… Read more »
You forgot about Vixen.
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