ALL-NEGRO COMICS #1
CGC VF-: 7.5
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SOLD ON: Friday, 03/13/2009 1:10 PM
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PUBLISHER: All-Negro Comics
COMMENTS: off white pgs
George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
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George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
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off white pgs
George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
Highest Graded
This extraordinary document is both part of comics history and African American history, with All-Negro Comics being the first title created and published by black comic artists for a black audience. Devised by pioneering journalist Orrin C. Evans in 1947, All-Negro #1 was presented as an alternative to the all-white (and often racist) comics otherwise populating the newsstands. Evans had a vision of providing young black readers with their own role models and heroes as created in their own community.
Those characters would include Lion Man as the first black superhero (seen on the upper-left corner of the book's cover.) As the alter-ego of a scientist overseeing a uranium deposit on the African Gold Coast, Lion Man was introduced to readers as a character meant to provide “a finer appreciation of their African heritage." Evans' ambitious project would get national news coverage, Sadly, this would still be the only issue of this pioneering comic.
George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
Highest Graded
This extraordinary document is both part of comics history and African American history, with All-Negro Comics being the first title created and published by black comic artists for a black audience. Devised by pioneering journalist Orrin C. Evans in 1947, All-Negro #1 was presented as an alternative to the all-white (and often racist) comics otherwise populating the newsstands. Evans had a vision of providing young black readers with their own role models and heroes as created in their own community.
Those characters would include Lion Man as the first black superhero (seen on the upper-left corner of the book's cover.) As the alter-ego of a scientist overseeing a uranium deposit on the African Gold Coast, Lion Man was introduced to readers as a character meant to provide “a finer appreciation of their African heritage." Evans' ambitious project would get national news coverage, Sadly, this would still be the only issue of this pioneering comic.