Why are there no black superheroes............?

Answer 1

Maybe cause there are no black animation artists. And if there are, why the hell aren't they drawing black superheroes?

Answer 2

There are black superheroes. There may not be as many as you'd like, so why not create your own. I looked over the answers and would like to add Falcon and the Black Goliath. There was even a young hero group in marvel (silly me , I forgot their name) who's original leader was black. I think his name was Night Thrasher, He had a power suit, if anyone recalls, or wants to research, help me out here. The basis of the X-men was bias. Remember also, when most of these stories were written. There are also a few black villains. I won't name any, you didn't want to know. Also, don't forget from Powerman comic, Misty Knight had a bionic arm, not a superhero, but she and Colleen Wing helped Heroes for Hire several times. No one mentioned Cyborg, Vixen, the Black Dragon, or other DC heroes. As I try to recall from memory, I can only think of a half dozen Hispanic or Native American superheroes. I can think of an easy dozen black. Comparitively, that's not a lot, but with most writers and artists being white I think it better than it could of been. I have had personal experience with the good and the bad in all types of people, and would like to see the industry better reflect real life.

Answer 3

Ok here is a list of Black Super Heros Victor Stone/Cyborg, Black Vulcan in The Super Friends, John Stewart/Green Lantern,Static Shock, Black Lightning, Jason Rusch/Firestorm there is plenty of black Dc superheros

Answer 4

Where to start? Spawn, Black Panther, Luke Cage, Storm, Super Vulcan. The Justice Leagues Green Latern eventually became black. And Ultimate Nick Fury from the Marvel Universe became black.

Answer 5

There is one Black Superhero: Blade from Marvel Comics

Answer 6

There are........

Cage
The Black Marvel (featured in Spider-man)
Storm (X-men)
Blade
Black Panther

Plus a large number of other black heroes that appeared as minor chracters in other well known strips or in their own comics, which had short runs.

What you have to remember is that when the superhero genre was developed (1960's America) everything was biased towards 'whites' and that included fictional characters.

What I think that you have missed is the sub-text. The whole X-Men mutant thing (being different, not accepted by society, misunderstood) was BASED upon the idea of racial divides in the 1960's.

Answer 7

There are TONS of black superheroes. You are probably reacting to the fact there are very few comics that feature black superheroes. One respondent has already touched on the relationship between readership and race. I think that sales also have to be considered.

In the 60's when comics evolved into a primarily superhero based medium, the market for those types of comics was comprised primarily of boys 7-15 from families with some disposable income---primarily white boys.

Since then society has evolved and there are more middle and upper class black homes. The comic industry has evolved as well. It has gone from an industry that was constantly trying to lure in new 7-8 year old readers to one that instead tries to hold on to its existing audience. The target auidence for superhero comics is now 25-35 year olds.

This hits on a lot of problems with the industry. If the core of the industry readership are the same people who read comics 15-20 years ago, that core is primarily white.

If you are going to sell a comic fan of any race a comic character, the character has to either have something to him that readers relate to or has to have a lifestyle that readers relate to.

A few years ago there was a comic company called MILESTONE that published through DC. They published a number of good comics (Hardwire, Static) and a few very good ones (Xombi, Shadow Cabinet, Blood Syndicate). They did about as well as could be expected, but they eventually stopped publishing. As I see it, a part of the problem is that the industry isn't geared to bring in new readers anymore. Comics are not sold in every grocery store anymore. (What grocery stores they are in often only handle a handful of titles on a monthly basis. 4 years ago I tracked my grocery store. It carried amazing spiderman and captain Marvel, but it didn't carry X-men or avengers. It was very similar on the DC side of the equation as well.)

Simply put, Milestone was trying to sell comics featuring primarily black characters to a mostly white audience. For milestone to work, they would have to have some way of pulling in black 7-15 year olds into the market besides simply relying on comic shops.

They seemed to figure that out, but they figured it out too late. They began to license out their character and got static on TV in the show Static Shock. If that were on TV in the first year of Milestone, they may have have the means of generating the new readers required to keep their books afloat.

Most of the larger companies have a print run number that they consider to be the minimum quantity of titles they can publish and still pay all parties and not fall into the red. Lets say that that number is generally 18,000 or so for DC. Their agreement with milestone might have been set for a lower quantity---say 14,000. Well if you only have say 20,000 african american regular comic readers, you can see where it might be difficult to keep a book in regular publication.

Then there is also the quality issue. Most books featuring black heroes have been very poorly plotted. They are written as token black heroes instead of interesting characters in their own right who happen to be black. Milestone was better than most companies in this regard, but they still didn't succeed.

Ultimately it comes down to readership. A good comic from a major company with an interesting grab will generally sell enough to stay in print for at least a few years. A bad comic featuring white heroes might hang around for a year. A bad comic featuring black heroes will last even less time as it will have fewer readers.

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Answer 9

What about Steel, Frozone, Static Shock, Storm, John Stewart , Anansi, Mr Terrific, Cyborg, Black Panther and lets not forget Tea'lc whos a sort of hero and would easily beat the rest.

Answer 10

actually there was a black green lantern and his name was john Stewart if you remember him he was in Justice league that ran on kxvo at the time and is now on reruns on boomerang from cartoon network...so yeah there were some black superheros..i forgot to mention blade, spawn but there you go there are all of the black superheroes i knoknow of including storm, cage,nightcrawler and the black marvel.