# Black Panther - Hardcover

by **Don McGregor** (Author), **Rich Buckler** (Author), **Billy Graham** (Author)

**The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.**

**A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition**

Collects _Fantastic Four_ #52-53 (1966); _Jungle Action_ #6-21 (1973-1976). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.

The Black Panther is not just a superhero; as King T'Challa, he is also the monarch of the hidden African nation of Wakanda. Combining the strength and stealth of his namesake with a creative scientific intelligence, the Black Panther is an icon of Afro-futurist fantasy. This new anthology includes the Black Panther's 1966 origin tale and the entirety of the critically acclaimed "Panther's Rage" storyline from his 1970s solo series.

A foreword by Nnedi Okorafor, a scholarly introduction and apparatus by Qiana J. Whitted, and a general series introduction by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of Black Panther and classic Marvel comics.

The Deluxe Hardcover edition features gold foil stamping, gold top stain edges, special endpapers with artwork spotlighting series villains, and full-color art throughout.

### Author Biography

A regular contributor to Marvel's letter columns as a teen, **Don McGregor** broke into comics writing short stories for Warren's Publishing black-and-white magazines _Creepy_, _Eerie_, and _Vampirella_. Making the jump to Marvel Comics as a writer-editor in the mid-1970s, he combined a penchant for densely descriptive prose captions and character-driven narrative with the excitement of super hero drama on the first solo series devoted to the ad­ventures of the Black Panther. His groundbreaking run brought a new so­cial relevance to the series, and McGregor's vision of T'Challa, his people, and the nation of Wakanda remains influential to this day. Concurrent with his work on the Panther, McGregor collaborated with artist P. Craig Russell on Killraven in _Amazing Adventures_ a science-fiction romance about an earthbound hero's struggles against Martian invaders. In this series, too, McGregor pushed back against the presumptions of racism: Killraven featured mainstream comics' first interracial kiss.

**Rich Buckler** (1949-2017) was a versatile artist who drew hundreds of pages for Marvel, DC, Archie, Warren, and others, during his long ca­reer. Among his most notable work for Marvel: In the 1970s he helped introduce Deathlok in the pages of _Astonishing Tales_; penciled several storylines in _Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man_; and enjoyed runs on _Fantastic Four_, _Thor_, and other monthly titles, including the first solo series featuring the Black Panther. Buckler's DC work includes _Lois Lane_, _The Secret Society of Super-Villains_, and _World's Finest_, as well as the groundbreaking _Superman vs. Shazam_. Graham was also a playwright, theatrical set designer, stage and film actor, and commercial artist. He passed away in 1997 at the age of 61.

Writer-editor **Stan Lee** (1922-2018) and artist Jack Kirby made comic book history in 1961 with _The Fantastic Four_ #1. The success of its new style inspired Lee and his many collaborators to develop a number of super heroes, including, with Jack Kirby, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men; with Steve Ditko, the Amazing Spider-Man and Doctor Strange; and with Bill Everett, Daredevil. Lee oversaw the adventures of these cre­ations for more than a decade before handing over the editorial reins at Marvel to others and focusing on developing Marvel's properties in other media. In his final years, Lee's signature cameo appearances in Mar­vel's films established him as one of the world's most famous faces.

Born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917 to Jewish-Austrian parents on New York's Lower East Side, **Jack Kirby** came of age at the birth of the American comic book industry. Horrified by the rise of Nazism, Kirby co-created the patriotic hero Captain America with Joe Simon in 1940. Cap's ex­ploits on the comic book page entertained millions of American readers at home and inspired US troops fighting the enemy abroad. Kirby's partner­ship with Simon continued throughout the 1940s and early '50s; together, they produced comics in every popular genre, from Western to romance. In 1958, Kirby began his equally fruitful collaboration with writer-editor Stan Lee, and in 1961 the two men co-created the foundational text of the modern Marvel Universe: _The Fantastic Four_. Over the next decade, Kirby and Lee would introduce a mind-boggling array of new characters-- including the Avengers, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, the Silver Surfer, and the X-Men. Kirby's groundbreaking work with Lee formed the foundation of the Marvel Universe. In the early 1970s, Kirby moved to DC Comics, where he created his interconnected Fourth World series, as well as freestanding titles such as _The Demon_. He returned to Marvel in 1975, writing and illus­trating The Black Panther and Captain America and introducing series such as Devil Dinosaur and the Eternals. Kirby died in 1994. Today, he is gener­ally regarded as one of the most important and influential creators in the history of American comics. His work has inspired multiple generations of writers, artists, designers, and filmmakers, who continue to explore his vast universe of concepts and characters.

**Nnedi Okorafor** is a Nigerian American author of African-based sci­ence fiction, fantasy, and magical realism for children and adults. Her works include _Who Fears Death_ (currently in development at HBO into a TV series), the Binti novella trilogy, _The Book of Phoenix_, the Akata books, and _Lagoon_. She is the winner of Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Lodestar Awards, an Eisner Award nominee, and her debut novel _Zahrah the Windseeker_ won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. Nnedi has also written comics for Marvel, including _Black Panther: Long Live the King_ and _Wakanda Forever_ (featuring the Dora Milaje) and the Shuri series. Her science fiction comic series _LaGuardia_ (from Dark Horse) is an Eisner and Hugo Award winner, and her memoir, _Broken Places & Outer Spaces_, is a Locus Award nominee. Nnedi holds two MAs (literature and journalism) and a PhD (literature).

**Qiana J. Whitted** is a professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of the Eisner Award- inning book _EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest_ and co-editor of the collection _Comics and the U.S. South_.

**Ben Saunders** is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of _Desiring Donne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation_ and _Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes_, as well as numerous critical essays on subjects ranging from the writings of Shakespeare to the recordings of Little Richard. He has also curated sev­eral museum exhibitions of comics art, including the record-breaking multimedia touring show _Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes_\-- retro­spective exploring the artistic and cultural impact of Marvel Comics from 1939 to the present.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.26 x 10.63 x 7.64 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** June 14, 2022

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