The Defenders: 30 Best Easter Eggs In Netflix's Marvel Universe (So Far)

18. The Invisible Man - Luke Cage

Who'd have thought that Luke Cage would be such a big reader?

In Power Man's first episode he reads a copy of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, a seminal book about black identity and politics early in the twentieth century. You don't need a degree to see why he'd be so invested in that - or in the book on the Attica prison riots he also owns.

The second episode sees Luke reading Little Green by Walter Mosley, which is intriguingly the story of a character a lot like Cage. He's a black detective who deals with various instances of racial and social injustice, who returns from the dead (or assumed dead), which is also very much like Luke Cage's story.

There's also a nod in the last episode to Chester Himes' The Heat's On, one of the prominent Harlem Detective novels, which one of the cops who picks Luke up is reading.