As Black Panther's co-creator, it makes sense that Jack Kirby would've helmed a series of his own on the character. What's most surprising is that it came so late, a whole ten years after T'Challa first burst onto the scene in 1966.
Having fallen out with Marvel in the late sixties, Kirby switched companies and began a long and highly influential stint over at DC Comics. Switching companies again later in the seventies, Kirby decided to pen a Black Panther series of his own, and it's every bit as zany and imaginative as the creator's earlier efforts.
Centred around T'Challa as he deals with a magic, time-travelling artefact that once belonged King Solomon (it's also a frog), Kirby's series was as cosmic as any comic could possibly get. It makes his run a less conventional Black Panther comic, but it's no less entertaining, boasting the same kind of scope that made the writer/artist's prime such an enjoyable one for comic book readers to experience.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
