Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Comic Gallery: THE BLACK KNIGHT

1955

1955

1956

2 comments:

TC said...

IIRC, some of these were reprinted in the late 1960s in Fantasy Masterpieces/Marvel Super Heroes.

The 1950s Black Knight was basically Zorro in King Arthur's Camelot. That is, he was a masked hero who posed as a mincing fop in his civilian identity.

At least two other Marvel Comics characters used the Black Knight name. Both were descendants of the original. One was a super-villain who was killed while fighting Iron Man in the mid-1960s. His nephew inherited the costume and weapons, and became a superhero. I think he later joined the Avengers.

I seem to recall a story in Avengers #84 (ca. 1970) where the modern hero Black Knight used a seance or something to summon the ghost of his Arthurian-era ancestor, who then gave him advice.

Evan Lewis said...

Zorro in armor sounds pretty dang good. Makes me want to read one.