The Falcon – Vintage Mainstream’s First Black Superhero

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Name: Samuel Thomas Wilson

Mechanical Wings

Limited Telepathic & Emphatic Control Over Birds

1st African-American Superhero To Appear In Mainstream Comic Books!

Began as an unnamed former resident of New York City’s Harlem neighborhood.

First introduced by the Stan Lee, and artist Gene Colan in Captain America #117 (September 1969).