While superhero mania might seem like a new type of Hollywood hysteria, the industry has actually financed films about masked heroes and vigilantes since moving images were projected on a screen.

For decades, Black Panther has stood as a monument to Black excellence, a king born from African roots, crowned not only with power but with meaning.

S.H. The first episode of this Marvel-ous superhero series went full mid-century sitcom, plopping Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) into a black-and-white dreamscape of ...

It has three black superheroes on the front lines ... "It's ridiculous that every superhero [in film] was a white man who is 30 years old," he says. "It's completely unrealistic.

Other superhero shows on The CW feature non-white characters in key roles, but this is their first superhero series centered on black people and black culture. Pierce fights gang members in a ...