Items14The creator’s order
  1. 1Jungle Action (1972)Jungle Action (1972)Published Jan 1, 1972Panther's Rage, Jungle Action #6-18 (1973-1976) This is where Wakanda stops being a backdrop. Don McGregor keeps T'Challa at home for the whole saga, facing Erik Killmonger's rebellion as it strikes the country's outlying settlements, and the story even gave readers their first maps of the nation.…0
  2. 2Jungle Action (1972)Jungle Action (1972)Published Jan 1, 1972The Panther vs. the Klan, Jungle Action #19 onward (1976) McGregor's boldest swing takes T'Challa out of Wakanda and into a Deep South still segregated in practice, where a foreign head of state and his companion Monica run into the Klan. It earns its place as an early, unflinching look at how the…0
  3. 3Black Panther (1988)Black Panther (1988)Published Jan 1, 1988Black Panther limited series (1988) Four issues by Peter B. Gillis and Denys Cowan that put T'Challa's foreign policy on trial. Apartheid violence is rising in Azania, a fictional neighbor of Wakanda, and he has to choose between military intervention and backing peaceful change while facing…0
  4. 4Black Panther: Panther's Quest (2018)Black Panther: Panther's Quest (2018)Published Jan 1, 2018Panther's Quest, Marvel Comics Presents #13-37 (1989) Don McGregor's second run on the character sends T'Challa undercover into apartheid South Africa to find the mother he has never known, with Gene Colan on art across 25 anthology chapters. Where the 1988 series argues about intervention from…0
  5. 5Black Panther (1998)Black Panther (1998)Published Jan 1, 1998Christopher Priest's run, Black Panther #1-62 (1998-2003) The best single starting point for readers who want T'Challa as a ruler first and a superhero second. Priest tells it through Everett K. Ross, the State Department handler assigned to him, so you watch a king outmaneuver Washington from the…0
  6. 6Black Panther (2005)Black Panther (2005)Published Jan 1, 2005Reginald Hudlin's run, Black Panther #1-41 (2005-2008) Hudlin opens with Who Is the Black Panther?, drawn by John Romita Jr., which lays out a line of Panthers through history and the claim that no one has ever conquered Wakanda, then sends Klaw and his hand-picked strike team to test it while…0
  7. 7Black Panther (2009)Black Panther (2009)Published Jan 1, 2009Shuri takes the mantle, Black Panther #1-12 (2009-2010) Reginald Hudlin and Jonathan Maberry hand the title to Shuri, which makes this the natural follow-up for fans of Wakanda Forever. It opens with T'Challa near death after his jet crashes in Wakanda, then asks who can carry the mantle when the…0
  8. 8Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet (2024)Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet (2024)Published Jan 1, 2024Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze, Black Panther #1-12 (2016-2017) The most political Black Panther comic there is. Coates opens with a reluctant king using force against a democratic uprising led by the warrior Tetu and the prophet Zenzi, whose movement is pointedly called The People, and…0
  9. 9Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2017)Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2016-2017) The companion to Coates's uprising, told from the other side. Roxane Gay and artist Alitha E. Martinez follow Ayo and Aneka from young Dora Milaje recruits to rebel leaders, and their love story gives the revolt in the main book a human cost. It won the…0
  10. 10Rise of the Black Panther (2018)Rise of the Black Panther (2018)Published Jan 1, 2018Rise of the Black Panther (2018) The easiest door in for film fans. Evan Narcisse, with Coates as consultant, retells in six self-contained issues how T'Challa rose to power and how Wakanda revealed itself to the rest of the world. Paul Renaud and Javier Pina share the art. It reimagines rather…0