ALL-NEGRO COMICS #1
CGC VG-: 3.5
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SOLD ON: Monday, 09/09/2019 2:53 PM
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PUBLISHER: All-Negro Comics
COMMENTS: off white pgs; Sl (C-1) cvr glued to 1st wrap
George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
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George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
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off white pgs; Sl (C-1) cvr glued to 1st wrap
George Evans Jr. art; hanging panelsThis extraordinary document is not only a piece of comics history, but of African-American history, being the first comic created and published by black comic artists for a black audience. Devised by journalist Orrin Cromwell Evans in 1947, All-Negro #1 was posited as an alternative to the all-white, often racist comics otherwise populating the newsstands, and was aimed to provide young black readers their own role models and heroes, sorely needed in that pre-civil rights era.
George Evans Jr. art; hanging panelsThis extraordinary document is not only a piece of comics history, but of African-American history, being the first comic created and published by black comic artists for a black audience. Devised by journalist Orrin Cromwell Evans in 1947, All-Negro #1 was posited as an alternative to the all-white, often racist comics otherwise populating the newsstands, and was aimed to provide young black readers their own role models and heroes, sorely needed in that pre-civil rights era.