Meet Bungleton Green--an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero, created more than a decade before characters such as Black Panther and Falcon.
In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson--a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper the Chicago Defender--did something unexpected.
He took the Defender\'s stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green and remade it into a gripping, anti-racist science-fiction adventure comic.
Nazis, segregationist senators, Benedict Arnold, fifth columnists, eighteenth- century American slave traders, evil scientists, and a nation of racist Green Men all faced off against the Mystic Commandos and Green, who in the strip\'s run would be transformed by Jackson into the first-ever Black superhero.
Never before collected or republished, Jackson\'s stories are packed with jaw-dropping twists and breathtaking action, and present a radical vision of a brighter American future..
He teamed the bum- bling Green with a crew of Black teens called the Mystic Commandos, and together they battled the enemies of America and racial equality in the past, present, and future.
Meet Bungleton Green--an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero, created more than a decade before characters such as Black Panther and Falcon.
In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson--a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper the Chicago Defender--did something unexpected.
He took the Defender\'s stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green and remade it into a gripping, anti-racist science-fiction adventure comic
