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POWER MAN, as all true MARVELITES know, was the name of a villain who fought The AVENGERS in #s 21 & 22 of their own mag back in the '60s. However, in the '70s, the name was dusted down and applied to LUKE CAGE's superhero alter-ego, a mercenary HERO FOR HIRE, who wasn't necessarily spurred to random acts of goodness merely out of a sense of altruism like most other characters in the superhero 'business'.
I never quite understood why black heroes usually had the word 'black' prefixed to their names, as if we needed to be made aware of the fact. (BLACK GOLIATH, BLACK LIGHTNING*, etc.) We had eyes, didn't we? It was different with The BLACK PANTHER, as the word referred to the colour of his costume, not his skin, but I'm so glad Luke Cage wasn't called Black Power Man, as that would've been simply silly.
(*Black Lightning, of course, is a DC COMICS hero.)
Anyway, that's enough waffle from me - enjoy some pages from the first (and perhaps only - anyone know?) issue of his own Giant-Size reprint mag from 1975. Did you own this ish? Then let's hear from you in the comments section.
