Browse the marvel comic series luke cage, hero for hire 1972 1973. In the comic, luke cage changes his name so he can get more attention for his business. Check out individual issues, and find out how to read them. Luke cage and donning a distinctive costume, he launches a career as a hero for hire, helping anyone who can meet his price. Buying a costume and taking on the name luke cage, lucas begins his career as hero for hire. We use ebay to provide references to live prices of comic books. Luke cage, wrongly convicted and unjustly imprisoned, was altered in a failed prison experiment that granted him unbreakable skin and superhuman strength. Subjecting himself to unorthodox experiments, this inmate is endowed with great physical strength and nighunbreakable skin.
Power man and iron fist 1972 hero for hire comic books. A wrongfully charged inmate in seagate prison named carl lu. View market values for books, store your collection, and meet fellow comic fans. Equal parts marvel method and blaxploitation boldness, he was a new kind of hero for a new era. Luke cage hero for hire marvel comics 1970s profile. The shores credit is from the letters page of hero. Written by archie goodwin and drawn by george tuska both white guys, it showed a. Luke cage hero for hire comic book collection youtube. Hero for hire also told a distinctly black storybut it was shaped by very different cultural and social pressures that reveal how the original cage and cokers. Luke cage, hero for hire comic book collections for sale ebay. Luke cage hero for hirepower man comic book covers 19721977 duration. Luke cage, hero for hire comic book cover in chains punisher marvelmarvel. Luke cage, hero for hire the comic book price guide for. Now, as luke cage, he is known as the hero for hire, and hes here to clean up the mean streets, one criminal at a time.
Clicking a text link or image marked check live prices will. Values of luke cage, hero for hire free comic book values. And so luke cage, hero for hire debuted, the first ever comic book series to solely star a black character. This volume follows the first adventures of luke cage, whom was wrongly convicted of a crime and, under the alias of luke cage, fights for the little people. This reminded me of the importance and value of black heroes and heroes of color. Incidentally, another hero, erik josten, was already using the name power man. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands affordable prices. The comic book price guide for great britain luke cage. Heroes for hire is a fictional superhero team appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics. While searching, he is attacked by hit men hired by. Senor muerte is perhaps the best character in the original luke cage. The luke cage comics thatll prep you for netflixs new series. Walker and sanford greene, a first issue that is rife with call.
And he was the first black character of any genre to hold down a comic book. Printed credits give inking credit to billy graham. Luke cage hero for hire marvel comics 1970s profile a full character profile for luke cage marvel comics as he appeared early on in his hero for hire comic book 1970s. Luke cage is a superhero for his time the atlantic.
Luke cage power man is a fictional superhero appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics. Power man and iron fist originally luke cage, hero for hire then luke cage, power man was an american comic book series published by marvel comics, featuring the superheroes power man and. Power man and iron fist, the original heroes for hire. Luke cage, hero for hire comic book collections for sale. Luke cage, aka power man is a marvel comics superhero, originally created as part of the 1970s blaxploitation craze. Luke cage was the first black superhero to debut in his own comic book in fact, the first to be featured in his own series at all.
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