#869 Jack Kirby's Black Panther #1-2: A Ribbit-ing Time Travel Story

About this episode

Tim and Emmet discuss the first two issues of Jack Kirby's Black Panther series and its peculiarities in dialogue and character.

We begin our look at Jack Kirby 's Black Panther series from the 1970s, introducing a new Kirby character who's a bit too similar to one who first appeared in Captain America ! Panther has somehow gotten mixed up in the search for the mate to King Solomon's Frog , an oddball time travel device. The mate is used to return people to their proper point in time. Tim and Emmet discuss the first two issues of the run and how Kirby's Panther dialog just doesn't seem quite right to the modern Marvel reader. Brought to you by: The Quick and the Dad Our supporters on Patreon

People in this episode

Host: Tim Young

Guest: Emmet

Topics covered

• Jack Kirby
• Black Panther
• time travel
• comic book analysis
• 1970s comics

Keywords

• Jack Kirby
• Black Panther
• time travel
• comic books
• 1970s

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Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Jack Kirby's Black Panther, Captain America, King Solomon's Frog

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