Museum of Black Superheroes

From Encyclopedia Superheroica -the Encyclopedia of Superheroes

The Museum of Black Superheroes is an online collection commemorating the history of black heroes and their contribution to the genre.

Contents 1 Site 2 Members 3 Back to 4 References

Site

The History section gives some background to the story of black heroes in comicbooks. Beginning with a few less-than-flattering portrayals in the 1940's, it moves up through the Blaxploitation years, into the more-enlightened characters and storylines of recent times. The Exhibits are a series of character summaries categorized by comicbook publisher. Of course there are a bunch of interesting images in the Gallery. The Articles include a collection of academic papers including "The Black Panther's first appearance in Fantastic Four #52" and "Why Don't Black Books Sell?" among many others.

Members

• the Falcon
• Black Panther
• Black Lightning
• Cyborg
• Afro-Man
• etc.

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STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY subsection

References

The Official Museum of Black Superheroes
As review at Wired.com
Blogged about at Time In Moments