![]() ![]() ![]() Marvel had things I hadn’t even thought of, like hero-villains. Everybody’s powers were so funnily designed that it didn’t feel real. Marvel, way back in the beginning, had a black character, in Sgt. I had been reading DC before, but I gave up. ![]() 1 came out in 1963, so we’re talking the mid-’60s, here? You were a big Marvel Comics fan growing up, right? We caught up with the author to talk respectability politics, the thorny issue of colorism, and why he thinks Spider-Man was the first black superhero. ![]() As it turns out, the feeling of respect is mutual: Mosley is a longtime superhero-comics geek and grew up reading Luke’s initial comic-book adventures in the early 1970s. In the second episode, two of the leads debate the comparative merits of Mosley and fellow African-American crime novelist Donald Goines - and the one going to bat for Mosley is none other than the title character. A bevy of books are either seen or name-checked throughout the latest Netflix superhero series, and one that gets a particularly bright place in the spotlight is Little Green, a novel by one of the most prolific and acclaimed living crime-fiction writers, Walter Mosley. Whatever you think of Marvel’s Luke Cage, you can’t say it’s not literate. ![]()
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