The First Marvel Movie Superhero Was Black

Daily Beast ^ | February 15, 2018 | Ira Madison III

[discostu]

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.

[SJSAMPLE]

That movie started out so good and had so much potential.
Then Charlize Theron killed it.

[al_c]

The Marvel branding began 1961. The first superheroes under that name were The Fantastic Four.

An easily overlooked word in the title ... The First Marvel Movie Superhero Was Black

[al_c]

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.

[al_c]

Another side note ... that Fantastic Four was an unreleased title.

[fightin kentuckian]

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.

[mass55th]

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.

[mass55th]

"That movie started out so good and had so much potential. Then Charlize Theron killed it."

"Batman" was a decent movie, but then Kim Basinger ruined it...at least for me. I couldn't stand her screaming.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Actually it is correct based on what the author wrote.

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".

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I was only responding to the lead sentence. I didn’t pay much attention to the headline. Perhaps I should have.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Another side note... that Fantastic Four was an unreleased title.

The Fantastic Four debuted in The Fantastic Four #1. Dated November 1961.

Not sure how that makes it 'unreleased'.

[al_c]

Movie ... not comic

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ah.