Marvel's Luke Cage: 44 Easter Eggs You Probably Missed

21. The Invisible Man

Luke Cage Easter Eggs
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Books play a surprisingly big part in Luke Cage: for a muscle-bound hero he's a big reader.

In the first episode it's revealed that he reads Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, a seminal book about black identity and politics early in the twentieth century. There's also a book on the Attica prison riots there.

And then in the second episode, Luke is seen reading Little Green by Walter Mosley, which follows a character who can be quite clearly linked to Cage, as he's a black detective who deals with various instances of racial and social injustice. In it, the detective comes back from the dead (or assumed dead), which is also very Luke Cage.

And finally in the last episode, one of the cops who picks up Cage is reading Chester Himes' The Heat's On, one of the prominent Harlem Detective novels. Everything he reads might as well be part of his make-up.

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