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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Exhibitor Relations Co.

      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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      Exhibitor Relations Co. @ERCboxoffice
      Marvel's BLACK PANTHER will score another $16M this weekend, $630M total, making it #5 of all time domestically ahead of THE LAST JEDI and THE AVENGERS. It will be the highest grossing comic book adaptation ever in North America. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

      2. Black Panther was created in 1965, a full a year before he first appeared in Fantastic Four #52. Originally Jack Kirby created him to be hero of his own title.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

      3. The history: in 1965 Marvel publisher Martin Goodman heres that rival publisher Harvey was expanding into superheroes, so he tasked Jack Kirby & Stan Lee to expand Marvel with more titles.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

      4. Lee & Kirby (mostly, in my opinion Kirby) came up with a raft of concepts, including The Inhumans & an African superhero, originally with regrettable name Coal Tiger. https://adeptpress.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/coaltiger.jpg …

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

      5. Integral to creation of Black Panther was Lee/Kirby coming into contact with fans for first time (first conventions they attended were in 1964 & 1965. Kirby: "I suddenly discovered that I had a lot of black readers."

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Mar 2018

          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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