188242, haha i remember that Serpents stuff Posted by AFKAP_of_Darkness, Mon Jun-05-06 08:49 PM
>After the death of MLK and all the riots etc., Marvel was >quick to point out that there were black troublemakers too and >never wanted to put the blame solely on the racists in most of >the race-related episodes-I'm especially thinking about the >Avengers episodes where Black Panther, the Avengers and a >female soul singer (?) battled a racist group called serpents >or something like that but also the "Trouble on campus" >episodes in Spider-man and several other ones. Also note that >Black Panther distanced himself from the Black Panther >movement...
despite his ultra-liberal, swinging hipster persona, Stan WAS in his 40s and the outlook in Marvel Comics was still relatively conservative even when Peter grew sideburns
it was pretty messed-up when T'Challa became "the Black Leopard" in order to distance him from the real-life Panthers, but at the same time i can kinda understand why they felt they had to do that
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