Panther Claw

blacks in the U.S. superhero comics

Abstract

Through a basic chronological construction of the production and editing of American comics of the 1960s and forward, the article studies black superheroes in the 20 th century. Thus, the paper develops a network of relations between historical reality and literary historicity of this marketing production. The paper focused on the most significant production, which went beyond the purely local market and achieved more scope to study black superheroes and their relationships with the same historical, cultural, social and political time the African American community has experienced. With the methodological emphasis on some products, characters, such as Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage and others, the article understands the importance of these characters as socio-cultural constructions of each observed age. Through the passage of time and the changes observed we perceive changes and permits that the ment al structures exercised in the grounds of the super-beings with the phenotype of African and African-American origin.