![]() ![]() ![]() One of the greatest tragedies of comics: the King never completed his magnum opus. At that point, it was renamed once more as Power Man & Iron Fist. Luke Cage, Hero For Hire ran for 16 issues before being rebranded as Power Man up to Issue #49. Presumed dead after an escape attempt, Lucas returns to his hometown Harlem and renames himself "Luke Cage," the community's own Hero for Hire. Sabotage by a guard with a grudge leaves Lucas with unbreakable skin and enhanced strength. This introductory issue features wrongfully-incarcerated Carl Lucas volunteering for a prison experiment in hopes of parole. Coupled with the series' Harlem setting and Blaxploitation genre trappings, Luke Cage, Hero For Hire was a major step forward for racial representation in superhero comics. Moreover, unlike Black Panther, Cage's costume did not mask his face his blackness was on full display for readers. ![]() He was, though, the first African-American superhero with an eponymous comic series. Luke Cage was neither the first Black superhero (that honor belongs to Black Panther) or the first African-American superhero (that was the Falcon). ![]()
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