>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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