Up in the sky, it's NOT a bird, or a plane, and it's probably not a black superhero.

For the first 20 years of modern comic book history, black superheroes were ignored. But in the 1960s black superheroes descended on the hero genre in their tights and capes to save the world, just like the rest.

Up until then, there where NO black superheroes and only a few black characters who regularly appeared in the most popular superhero stories.

This summer, we have Hancock. But many came before him ...