Dark Stars: Captain Marvel
Dark Stars is about Black superheroes (and supervillians) that have appeared in MARVEL/DC mainstream history. It all started with a challenge to some friends at the Comics shop that they couldn’t name twenty Black characters between BOTH houses along the superhero & supervillian line. Like ABSOLUTE GALACTUS, I’ll be sharing the Dark Stars of MARVEL/DC appearances as they are added to my collection.
January 24th, 2007 at 3:10 am
I was re-reading some Captain America comics by Kirby in a trade, and I found another person for your list:
Tinkerbelle. A big black woman who put the big beat down on Cap & the Falcon! See Captain America #195-197 collected in the Madbomb trade.
January 24th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Garth, thanks for the heads up, bruh. I’ll be sure to add Tinkerbell today. Be easy!
January 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I love Captain Marvel. Possibly the greatest black superhero . . . impossibly powerful, Southern like me (from New Orleans!), a leader of the Avengers of my youth–a great character. I was out of comics when she was de-powered, re-powered, and renamed, but I hated that Marvel didn’t want to let her be their flagship character.
The Avengers of the 80’s were AWESOME.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
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January 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I always thought Captain Marvel was an awesome character. Cool power, incredibly powerful - but I guess there wasn’t much motivation to her character to differentiate her from other characters so that writers would want to use her on a consistent basis. She was never very tortured or driven beyond a general desire to do good.
Since I am among a small minority that does not dig Nextwave, I was disappointed to see her used there in a totally throw-away Marvel misfits story. I bought Nextwave’s first four issues just to see Monica on the loose again. Sad to see it was just a comic book story (which can be cool) but did have any impact on the Marvel-verse, which I hoped for.