Issue 38: This issue focuses on the electrifying metahuman, Black Lightning
CBN Season 4 | Issue 38 | Black Lightning
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Black Lightning is a superhero in DC Comics. He was created by writer Tony Isabella and artist Trevor Von Eeden, first appearing in Black Lightning # 1 (April 1977) during the Bronze Age of Comic Books. He is a metahuman; Born Jefferson Pierce, he grew up in the disreputable Southside section of Metropolis known as Suicide Slum. He is capable of electrical manipulation and generation. Black Lightning is DC Comics' first African American superhero and the first to star in their own series for the DC imprint.
The original candidate for DC Comics' first headlining black superhero was a character called the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress, but would later be described by comics historian Don Markstein as "an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all." When the editor who had approved the Black Bomber left the company before the character had seen print, Tony Isabella (whose previous writing experience included Luke Cage, a black Marvel Comics superhero with his own title) was asked to salvage the character. Isabella managed to convince editors to instead use his Black Lightning character which he had been working on for some time, mentioning that his characters along the way were merely stepping stones.
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