Table of Contents
FOREWORD
Makani Themba, community activist/strategist........................................... i
INTRODUCTION
Black Panther vs. White Panther...................................................................v
CHAPTER ONE
From Patrice Lumumba to Sidney Poitier: Early Fantastic Four and
Avengers Appearances ..................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER TWO
The Jungle Book—Don McGregor Creates His Own Africa..............17
CHAPTER THREE
The Finished Man—Don McGregor (Almost) Completes His “Panther Novel”
..............................................................................................33
CHAPTER FOUR
The Return of the Kings—The Amazing and Wacky Adventures of
Jack Kirby’s Panther.......................................................................................41
CHAPTER FIVE
The Client Was a Man of Remarkable Focus—A Panther and a Priest.................................................................................................................55
CHAPTER SIX
The Spy King—How Christopher Priest’s Panther Forever Shook Up the Avengers....................................................................................................91
CHAPTER SEVEN
“Bad Mutha”—Reginald Hudlin's Uncompromised Royal Black
(Super-) Man and the Unbridled Black Imagination...........................105
CHAPTER EIGHT
Side-Swipes—The New York Ghost Cop and the Wakandan Princess
as “Replacement” Panthers ........................................................................123
CHAPTER NINE
The (Black) Man Without Fear—When T’Challa Replaced
Daredevil .......................................................................................................135
CHAPTER TEN
Between the World and Him—Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther....145
CONCLUSION
The Panther In Captain America: Civil War..........................................159
AFTERWORD
Dr. Gregory Carr, Chair, Africana Studies Department, Howard
University.......................................................................................................169
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...............................................................177