10. He Was The First Black Superhero In Mainstream Comic Books
Although there were other black characters and indeed heroic black characters in comic books prior to the 1966 introduction of Black Panther, he was the first black character with superpowers and the first lead black character to appear in comics that were considered to be mainstream. Waku, Prince of the Bantu, had appeared in comics published by Marvel's predecessor company, Atlas Comics, as early as the 1950s, and the Western black hero known as Lobo debuted in Dell Comics a year before Black Panther appeared, but they don't fit the superhero criteria. Black Panther paved the way for the likes Falcon, Storm, Luke Cage, Tyroc, Black Lightning and John Stewart to appear and black characters are now very prominent. That said, he will be the first black character to get a solo movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it will be the seventeenth instalment in the franchise.
