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In essays on the subject of centricity, I've most often used the image of a geometrical circle, which, as I explained here,  owes someth...

Saturday, May 21, 2022

DEPARTMENT OF COMICS CURIOSITIES #10

 Here's a rare example of a comic-book Black guy (African? Aborigine?) who's not made the goat for his dialect, from a 1943 issue of SPEED COMICS, in the feature "Padlock Holmes" by Ed Whelan.



And from a slightly later issue, here's The Black Cat encountering an African medicine-man whose intellectual attainments (and his resentment of Euro-culture) would fit him to appear in the next BLACK PANTHER movie.



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