Comic book and/or superhero movies fronted by Black actors, like the “Blade” trilogy and “Men in Black” series, once kept comic book features alive, only for Hollywood to declare them ...

Two years later, Black Panther demonstrated the wide ... they were comic books unless you knew they were comic books (The Rocketeer). Blade, introduced by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene ...

Among comic book movies, Blade is Black Panther’s most significant forebearer. The 1998 film was not only Marvel’s first hit movie, it was also the first to center on one of its black heroes.

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Blade appeared as a side character in these books for around a year until his first solo story in the black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampire Tales #8. His bloodsucker centric adventures ...

ready to face down his next foe … and cut to black, cue the techno. Apparently this was filmed with the intention of making the sequel about Blade battling Morbius. (In the comic books ...