Marvel fans first met Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) as a falcon, but nowadays he is Captain America - both on the screen and on the site. Sam will take the lead in Marvel's next film, "Captain America: Brave New World", " What is not bad for the former Sidekik character.

Created by Stan Lee and artist Ein Kolan in 1969, Falcon is often considered the first African-American superhero. (T'challa, Black Panther debuted a year earlier, making the first black superheroBut he is from Wakanda.) By the end of the 1960s, the Law on Civil Rights was the Law on Country and Segregation (though not racism) was something of the recent past. That decade, Marvel Comics decided to find the program and began to slowly introduce black accompanying characters.

"Sergeant Hughes and His Dealing Commandos" first sent to the newspapers in 1963 and appeared in the black soldier, Gabe Onesons, in the main team. Next came characters like OEO "Robbie" Robertson, editor of the Daily Bugle in "Incredible Spider-Man". And then the Black Panther opened the door to real black superheroes like Falcon, was Foster/Goliath and Luke Cage.

Now, just a black panther inadvertently Share a name with The militant party with a black pantherBut the usual names have helped Stan Lee's modern reputation as more than a firearm than it really was. According to "Marvel Comics: Unsceptable Story" by John HoweFalcon has emerged because of Lee's true concern: Good publicity. As the book of Howe told: In 1969, an article was led in the eastern village another, the underground newspaper of Cyorque, claiming that the comic books had no black characters. Lee/Marvel replied, in a letter written by an assistant editor, that they make a conscious (but gradually) effort to introduce black characters and list those who already had: T'kala, Robertson family, Gabe Onesons, Willie Lincoln, Supervisors Centurius And Man-Apet (yes ...)and falcon.

Only, falcon no debuted at this time. According to Howe, Lee and Kolan quickly put him in Captain America #117, and he then became a co-author of the book.

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Now, in his preface at MasterWorks MasterWorks: Captain America, Kolan claims that the falcon is His Idea because he wanted to draw a black superhero:

"I enjoyed drawing people of all kinds. I drew as many different types of people I could in the scenes I illustrated and wanted to draw black people. I have always found their characteristics interesting and much of their strength, spirit and wisdom written on their faces. Guy.

What were the models in those magazines? According to both How and Historian of comics bryan crownIt was someone known for a very different reason today: Orthental Jameses "Oh" Simpson.