In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head to July 1999 for the Black Panther issue that revealed the secret reason why T’Challa joined the Avengers.
As I noted in an old Comic Book Legends Revealed, when Christopher Priest launched his Black Panther series in 1998, it was part of a bit of an unusual publishing initiative by Marvel called Marvel Knights. The idea was to replicate the idea of the Heroes Reborn publishing initiative, where Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld’s respective studios were given control of four of Marvel’s most famous superhero titles (Avengers, Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Captain America) and allowed to essentially create the comic books themselves, and they would just be published by Marvel. So Lee and Liefeld would have effectively complete creative control, and Marvel would basically be “farming the comics out.”
However, while these books were set in the Marvel Universe, as you might imagine, it’s a bit weird doing crossovers with the Marvel Universe when you’re sort of being published by your own separate company, and that peculiar situation especially resonated for Priest’s Black Panther, which was very much part of the Marvel Universe and also NOT really part of the Marvel Universe, and that led to Priest doing a surprising reveal that turned T’Challa’s relationship with the Avengers completely on its ear!
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head to July 1999 for the Black Panther issue that revealed the secret reason why T’Challa joined the Avengers.
As I noted in an old Comic Book Legends Revealed, when Christopher Priest launched his Black Panther series in 1998, it was part of a bit of an unusual publishing initiative by Marvel called Marvel Knights. The idea was to replicate the idea of the Heroes Reborn publishing initiative, where Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld’s respective studios were given control of four of Marvel’s most famous superhero titles (Avengers, Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Captain America) and allowed to essentially create the comic books themselves, and they would just be published by Marvel. So Lee and Liefeld would have effectively complete creative control, and Marvel would basically be “farming the comics out.”
However, while these books were set in the Marvel Universe, as you might imagine, it’s a bit weird doing crossovers with the Marvel Universe when you’re sort of being published by your own separate company, and that peculiar situation especially resonated for Priest’s Black Panther, which was very much part of the Marvel Universe and also NOT really part of the Marvel Universe, and that led to Priest doing a surprising reveal that turned T’Challa’s relationship with the Avengers completely on its ear!
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