Walker, who works on Marvel’s current Luke Cage title Power Man & Iron Fist, remembers how exciting it was to be a black adolescent digging into those early, jaw-breaking adventures. He was something rare and revolutionary back then, an African-American man who was no one’s sidekick, starring in his own monthly series. Existing in the margins of the Marvel universe, many years removed from his own standalone title, the character at the turn of the millennium was a far cry from what he had been at the time of his creation in the early 1970s, when the blaxploitation phenomenon was at its zenith. ![]() It wasn’t too long ago that Luke Cage, Marvel’s heavily muscled, no-nonsense bruiser of a superhero, existed mainly as a punch line.
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