Negro Heroes #1

By | Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Leave a Comment
All-Negro Comics #1 is relatively famously the first comic book created entirely by Black people. Several months before that came out, though, the National Urban League published a comic titled Negro Heroes featuring biographies of several prominent Black figures. However, these were all reprints from various Parents' Institute titles; Negro Heroes contained no original comic material. While some have argued that it was Parents' Institute that had a direct influence on All-Negro Comics #2 never getting published and their own book being just reprints, it still stands as a significant milestone in comics history. To that end, I'm going to reproduce here the full contents of Negro Heroes #1 (scans courtesy of the Digital Comic Museum) with stories on George Washington Carver, Mary McLeod Bethune, Paul Leroy Robeson, Matt Henson, Seaman Charles French, Charles Charles Walter David Jr., Charles Thomas and Matthew Alexander Henson...
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