LA Times Today: How two friends brought back Ebon, one of the first Black superheroes in a comic book
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Decades before Marvel’s Luke Cage was a hit Netflix show or the film “Black Panther” smashed box office records, a Black cartoonist created Ebon — one of the first Black superheroes to appear in his own comic book.
The character was nearly lost to history until a pair of friends working under the moniker “Black Kirby” revived and reimagined the comic book as part of the art exhibit “Ebon: Fear of a Black Planet.”
The character was nearly lost to history until a pair of friends working under the moniker “Black Kirby” revived and reimagined the comic book as part of the art exhibit “Ebon: Fear of a Black Planet.”