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Title: Comics with black people
Post by: emile1646 on April 11, 2016, 08:11:46 AM

Hello,

I'm suprised I can't find any comics with black characters inside.
Do you know any of them ?

Thank you !

Title: Re: Comics with black people
Post by: narfstar on April 11, 2016, 03:11:42 PM

There are several supporting characters or African natives portrayed, usually very stereotypical. There are a few dedicated comics.  https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2675      https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3094   https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=37543

Title: Re: Comics with black people
Post by: crashryan on April 11, 2016, 06:12:00 PM

During the 1950s one of the few places black people got star billing was in biographical comics about African American sports stars:

Roy Campanella: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61941&b=i

Larry Doby: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61940&b=i

Don Newcombe: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=61936&b=i

Jackie Robinson: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=46369

The Jackie Robinson comic ran for six issues. Interesting that all these books were published by Fawcett, which also published Negro Romances.

Title: Re: Comics with black people
Post by: MarkWarner on April 11, 2016, 07:21:07 PM

We also have a strip Frantic Stein https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2772 and in a very different light Ebony in
the Sprit https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1325

Title: Re: Comics with black people
Post by: narfstar on April 12, 2016, 02:11:49 AM

Never noticed Frantic Stein before Mark. Very cool

Title: Re: Comics with black people
Post by: festerb4 on April 14, 2016, 09:14:22 PM

Some other comic strips from the black press, in the single and small run category, are Buddy, Breezy, Amos Hokum, Your Folks and Mine, Around This Town, Your Folks and Mine, Booker, Bungletown Green and Harlem Humour, written, drawn and about black people. Walt Kelly's Pogo stories in Animal Comics featured a black child who spoke in dialect but was otherwise non-stereotyped.

Title: Re: Comics with black people
Post by: emile1646 on April 15, 2016, 09:06:14 PM

Thanks everybody !

Title: Re: Comics with black people
Post by: Quirky Quokka on September 28, 2022, 07:56:11 AM

There are three copies of 'Negro Romance' from 1950 under Fawcett, though I haven't read them so don't know what they're like.

https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3094