Posted on 02/15/2018 5:40:17 AM PST by C19fan
In 1998, exactly twenty years before Black Panther, the first Marvel Comics superhero made its theatrical debut. It was the vampire known as Blade. And he was black.
To be fair, there had been a handful of films based on Marvel properties before thisbut 1944s Captain America was a black-and-white serial film, 1989s The Punisher and 1990s Captain America were both direct-to-DVD, 1994s Fantastic Four was never released, and though its a cult classic, the less said about 1986s Howard the Duck, the better.
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That’s because back then SH movies were largely cheap disposable affairs. Now they are THE pole of the tent holding Hollywood up. It actually does matter, mostly in bad ways, that it took them this damn long to featuring one of the black heroes, and won’t get around to one of the women until later this year.
That movie started out so good and had so much potential.
Then Charlize Theron killed it.
An easily overlooked word in the title ... The First Marvel Movie Superhero Was Black
But ... even that is incorrect. The fist movie of a Marvel character was Captain America in 1944, then Howard the Duck in ‘86, the Punisher in ‘89, another Cap in ‘90, Fantastic Four in 94 ... and then came Blade in ‘98.
Another side note ... that Fantastic Four was an unreleased title.
Wait a minute.....wasn’t BICYCLE REPAIR MAN black???
Let’s take a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw
Nope, sorry my bad.
I’m 70, and had never heard of “Blade” until the Wesley Snipes movies came out. My youngest son has been a Marvel fan from the time he was a kid. He’s the one who has introduced me to all these characters. I liked the Blade films. Snipes was awesome in them.
"Batman" was a decent movie, but then Kim Basinger ruined it...at least for me. I couldn't stand her screaming.
In 1998, exactly twenty years before Black Panther, the first Marvel Comics superhero made its theatrical debut.
If the author meant that the first Marvel Comics superhero movie starred Blade then he should have written that. But he wrote, "the first Marvel Comics superhero". Blade was not "the first Marvel Comics superhero".
I was only responding to the lead sentence. I didn’t pay much attention to the headline. Perhaps I should have.
The Fantastic Four debuted in The Fantastic Four #1. Dated November 1961.
Not sure how that makes it 'unreleased'.
Movie ... not comic
Ah.
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