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Before Black Lightning, before Luke Cage, before The Black Panther
there was 'LOBO'.
Lobo #1 (Dec. 1965), was the first comic book with an African-American star. Created by writer D. J. Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico, it chronicled the Old West adventures of a wealthy, unnamed African-American gunslinger called "Lobo" by the first issue's antagonists. Lobo would leave the calling card of a gold coin imprinted with the images of a wolf and the letter "L" on the foreheads of vanquished criminals, . Cover art by Tony Tallarico. Lobo was a fictional Western comic book hero who was also the comic book medium's first African-American character to headline his own series.