As comics continue to be looked through an historical lens our characters that we have grown to love are viewing viewed for how pop culture influenced their creations and their actions and vice versa, how superheroes have affected pop culture. Adilifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes he looks as the way that black heroes and vigilantes have looked through the eyes of the industry and pop culture. He also looks at the characters in comparison to over examples of mass media and how those of African and African-American decent have been viewed. The introduction of Nama’s work opens with an anecdote about shopping for action figures with his father in the 1970’s and how with all of his adolescent might, analyzed
