5 Interesting Things You May Not Know About Black History in Comic Books

The First Black Superheroes 

There is an assumption that Black Panther is the first Black superhero, but that may be untrue. In the pages of All-Negro Comics, there was Lion Man and Ace Harlem, two characters who saved people and were heroes in their own stories. Lion Man was an African-American on a U.N. mission to Africa to stop people (mostly white people) from harming native people living in the Gold Coast region. He wore a loincloth costume and fought bad guys. He was created in 1947. Many may consider him to be more like Tarzan. Ace Harlem was a gumshoe or P.I. out of a noir film.