1. Here's the thing; Marvel has been under-estimating the appeal of Black Panther for more than 50 years now. Which is why immense success of movie is taking Marvel & Hollywood by surprise.https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/977574603554828288 …
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6. Marvel didn't go through with planned 1965 expansion & instead concepts were rolled into Fantastic Four (leading to richest period in series with introduction of Inhumans, Galactus, Silver Surfer, Black Panther & more in space of half a year).
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7. Key point here is that in 1965, Kirby was already conceiving of Black Panther as main character in own title. Marvel wasn't ready & made him secondary character in other books (Fantastic Four, Avengers, Captain America etc.)
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8. Anyways Marvel kept kicking Black Panther (at times renaming him The Panther to avoid political association) in secondary role, only giving him feature in Jungle Action (1973) due to pressure from Don McGregor.
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9. Kirby finally got a chance to do a Black Panther solo comic (his original idea) at the tale end of his final tenure at Marvel (1977-79) but that was cut short after 12 issues because he decided he was fed up with Marvel.
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10. As Brent Staples notes, Marvel had a hard time knowing what to do with Black Panther until Christopher Priest reinvented character in 1990s.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/opinion/afrofuturism-behind-black-panther.html …
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