Luke Cage, Hero For Hire #1

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I agree.

 

However, It's called Black exploration for a reason.

Paging Hector for an out of context quote.

I agree.

 

However, It's called Black exploration for a reason.

Exploitation.

Which, once again, shows your ignorance of the genre. Curious as to where you even were in 1972.

Watching Blacula.

Now, please enlighten me.

Glorifying negative stereotypes.

Superfly gets away.

Dolemite gets the laughs, and

Mandingo gets the...

then gets boiled.

I agree.

 

However, It's called Black exploration for a reason.

Exploitation.

 

Which, once again, shows your ignorance of the genre. Curious as to where you even were in 1972.

Sneaking, into Blaxploitation movies, and buying picture frame Marvel comics off spinner racks.

I missed Luke Cage Hero For Hire #1 somehow, though.

Watching Blacula.

Watching Blacula.

I agree.

 

However, It's called Black exploration for a reason.

That must have been the underground comic sold next to Omaha cat dancer.

you call it black sploration or whatever, i look at it as redemption? the guy changes his life around and is now doing good. a role model for the yoots of the city.

seriously though, the area could certainly have used a luke cage roaming around in the 70s and 80s. my mother worked in the [broadway] theatre industry [legit theatre..musicals, etc.] and had her offices down there on 43rd street and going there as a kid in the 70s/80s, it was frigging disgusting...it really was porn theatres everywhere, hookers rendering services in every available alley, junkies roaming around... in the 80s, during the crack epidemic, one of the phone booth near her office it would be nothing but the crunch crunch crunch of crack viles all around it as it was a distribution center for one of the local drug dealers

now it's pretty cleaned up.

of course, some people miss that old new york because back then you could rent an apartment for $200 on a low wage job (which would now cost over $3000) and now a parking spot costs more than $400 a month

uh... no.

 

 

And repeat after me . . . THIS is not Luke Cage.

 

 

 

THIS is Luke Cage:

 

I can repeat it ad nauseam, if you like.

And I entirely agree on the fact that you have to weight the importance, and base the development, of a character, from its original inception time and place.

The characterization of Cage influenced by 1990s movies "Boyz in the Hood" is equally bad. No, wait, the current one is badder – we owe it to Bendis.

Bald shirtless Luke Cage is pretty generic looking, but the mini-fro and puffy yellow shirt is pretty dated, and the silver tiara was always more than a bit goofy.

I'm okay with the goatee and yellow t-shirt look with black jeans and wonder woman bracelets, preferably with a chain belt that can be yanked out for some serious kicking.

Just don't put him in black and yellow spandex, or even worse,some kind of body armor, chainmail look.

Best Bronze age #1.

Bald shirtless Luke Cage is pretty generic looking, but the mini-fro and puffy yellow shirt is pretty dated, and the silver tiara was always more than a bit goofy.

The yellow shirt (puffy?) was/is pretty unique, and the head ornament (is that that you’re referring to) is just perfect…

Pffft. The best bronze age #1 was Swamp Thing.

Everything else pales.

Pffft. The best bronze age #1 was Swamp Thing.

 

Everything else pales.

I don’t think Marvel and DC are comparable. One might prefer one or the other, but they always have been different conceptions.

Pffft. The best bronze age #1 was Swamp Thing.

 

Everything else pales.

I'll concede to that one, but only if you view it in the context of #2-10, and of course, better art. Head-to-head, they're both great stories.

I could extoll the virtues of Swamp Thing #1 for days, but it is everything that made the Bronze Age special.

Oh, sure, "social relevance" and whatnot in HFH...but man, Swamp Thing captures the essence of the return to mystery, noir, spookiness, thrillers that are the hallmarks of the BA.

I’m sure you know your stuff, I just meant DC and Marvel are not comparable in their conception. DC could have easily published the best single stories, as it was for various publishers during the Golden Age…

I have never dared to venture much into DC territory just because it would exceed my means and storage space. So I can just say I love most of the Marvel BA titles dealing with the preternatural. (thumbs u

Swamp Thing is/was my favorite new mainstream comic character of the early Bronze Age but Cage was up there. I haven't re-read a lot of stuff from the era in the last 40 years, but I tended to prefer the more offbeat characters being introduced then to the longer running ones.

Me too, but it's a Luke Cage #1 thread . . .