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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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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Mark Evanier's intro to the Marvel Masterworks edition of The Inhumans -- and his coffee table book on Kirby.
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