Harriet Tubman Was My Wonder Woman
BRENTIN MOCK 10:55 AM ET
... The comics of my youth weren’t from the DC or Marvel universes: The first graphic novels I ever encountered were about black figures from history, courtesy of the Golden Legacy comics first published by Bertram A. Fitzgerald, Jr. in the 1960s and ’70s. None of my peers or friends got the same introduction to comics I did, but my parents were pretty mindful about the media I consumed as a child ...
I was probably in the 4th grade when my mother started bringing the books home from a five-and-dime store in the city. Each Golden Legacy comic was basically an animated biography of figures such as the early D.C. urban planner Benjamin Banneker and the arctic explorer Matthew Henson ... <T>he first comic superheroes I ever knew were Crispus Attucks, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass ...
I knew who Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were ... but not one scene from any of their story arcs resonated with me like the scene from Golden Legacy’s The Saga of Harriet Tubman “The Moses of Her People” where a slave-master struck Tubman in the head with an iron weight. The illustrations .. didn’t skimp on the violence either. The artist was able to convey .. just how painful the iron blast was: The nasty gash .. on her face made me wince ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/05/harriet-tubman-and-frederick-douglassmy-first-superheroes/482424/
