Deconstructing Comics #884: Jack Kirby’s ‘Black Panther’ — Take That, George Lucas!

by Erik Amaya

This week we finally return to Jack Kirby’s 1970s run on Black Panther, specifically issues #9 and #10. With Panther away during a crisis, his four relatives step up and become the Black Musketeers! Will they be comedically inept? Racially cringey? Or maybe they’ll turn out to be so great that everybody will forget about T’Challa! Also, Panther’s plight takes an amusing turn as he encounters a sci-fi film shoot in the African desert … hmmm…