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Posted: 17 Oct 2023


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Negro Romance
Showed blacks in a positive light
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Negro Romance

Negro Romance
Fawcett published three issues of Negro Romance, the second issue being reprinted by Charlton as Negro Romances number four, dated June through October 1950 and May 1955 respectively, as well as a series of sports hero comics about 1950 that included short runs of books starring Jackie Robinson and Joe Lewis. White companies also designed and distributed tabloid sized inserts of comics and general interest material to be inserted into black newspapers, but All Negro Comics was not only the first comic of original material to be marketed to blacks, it was the only comic book produced by blacks, and the only comic book featuring black characters in lead heroic roles.

This was featured on an episode of History Detectives (sadly it's no longer on air) on PBS. The clip is 14min which you can view here:
www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/african-a...