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Author Topic: "Adam: The Blue Marvel": Yay! More Golden-Age revisionisim!!  (Read 235 times)
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« on: March 29, 2009, 03:39:46 PM »
...Just read about this guy... Nice costume design, probably look neat as a figure...  But then I read that he's being retconned into being the "first black superhero" in Marvel from the early 50's...  "Who was the most popular hero of his time for a few years".  Roll Eyes  I guess Black Panther wasn't relevant enough?!  So what happened to this guy, did the Sentry help the world forget he existed?  Oy Vey... trippy
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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2009, 06:49:21 PM »
They should have just named him Black Sentry.

Unless Bendis decides to use him, this character will probably fade away into obscurity -- deservedly so.
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2009, 07:42:47 AM »
Quote from: kcekada on March 29, 2009, 06:49:21 PM
They should have just named him Black Sentry.


Or the African-American TRIUMPH, who was a founding member of the JLA.  For a year or so, anyway.

Is the writing any good on this Blue Marvel dude? Or is this another TRUTH situation where they ham-handedly try to deal with segregation and racism?  (I remember the U.S. Army massacred dozens of innocent black soldiers who were potential Captain Americas in TRUTH-- to "one-up" the Tuskegee Experiment I guess?)
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2009, 09:30:48 PM »
Did that end up being in continuity?
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2009, 09:49:19 PM »
Quote from: Rocko Jerome on March 30, 2009, 09:30:48 PM
Did that end up being in continuity?


Yeah.

you can read about it being in continuity here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Bradley

Which makes NO sense.  Why would Cap serve a government and a Super Soldier program that murdered 300 black soldiers?

Marvel was trying to do their version of the shocking and racist Tuskegee Experiment but ended up shitting on Cap for either being a dope (for never finding out about the murder of the 300) or a callous, apologist of a schmuck (if he did find out).

Cap met Isaiah Bradley, a survivor of the soldier massacre in France I think, but I don't think the massacre ever came up.  Instead of talking about that mass-murder and the moral hypocrisy of the US Army based on their actions, I think they had to beat up Baron Zemo or some shit.
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Quote from: Steve on July 30, 2012, 05:16:22 PM
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2009, 09:59:03 PM »
Wow.

You'll probably never know a more sincere white dude into Black Culture than me, and I think that's some dumb shit. You implicate Cap, you've really done a bad thing.
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