Jungle Action (1972)

Panther'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. Rich Buckler drew the opening chapter before Billy Graham took over the pencils. The prose captions are dense and the serial pace is slow, but the core idea of the films, a king whose own people question his right to rule, starts here.