Original, sadly known inspiration for Marvel’s The Falcon

Marvel fans first met with Sam Wilson (Anthony Maki) as a falcon, but nowadays he captain America – on the screen and on the page. Sam will take first of all in the next Marvel movie “Captain American: Brave New World”, That is not bad for the former Sidekick character.

Falcon, created by Sonne Lee and Artist Gin Kolan in 1969, is often considered the first African superhero. (T’Challa, Black Panther debuted a year earlier that made it the first black superheroBut he’s out of the vacanda. In this decade, Marvel Comics decided to get the program and began to slowly represent black characters.

“Sergeant Fura and his howling of the team” was first sent to a kiosk in 1963 and showed a black soldier Gaib Jones in the main acting. The heroes, such as Joe “Robbie” Robertson, editor of Daily Buggle, came in the “Amazing Spiderman”. And then the black panther opened the door for actual black superheroes such as Falcon, Bill Foster/Goliath and Luke Cage.

Now only black panther inadvertent shared the name with A militant party of black pantherBut the common names helped the modern reputation of Stens Lee more than it was actually. According to “Marvel Comics: The Untoly Story” Shan HouFalcon appeared because of the real concern: good publicity. According to the book Howe: In 1969, an article was held in the East Village, another NYC newspaper, which claimed that the comics lacked black characters. Lee/Marvel replied in a letter written by the editor’s assistant that they made conscious (but gradual) efforts to submit black characters and list those Lincoln, Suppriells Centurius and Person-Pel (yes …)and falcon.

Only, the falcon was not He made his debut at this time. According to How, Lee and Kolan hastily put him in “Captain of America” ​​No. 117, and then he became the head of the book.

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Now, in his preface to “Marvel Masterworks: Captain American” Tom 4, Kolan claimed that “Falcon” was his An idea because he wanted to draw a black superhero:

“I liked to draw people of all kinds. I drew as many different types of people I could illustrate and I liked to draw black people. I always considered their features interesting and so much their strength, spirit and wisdom written on their face I approached As I recall, I remember the idea of ​​presenting an African-American hero, and he immediately came to him.

Who were models in these magazines? According to Howe, and Comic historian Brian KrononIt was someone known today for a completely different reason: Arental James “oh” Simpson.