Luke Cage Turns Noir

Marvel Comics has been putting out a series of "Noir" titles which focus on what Marvel characters would be like if they had been created during the era of Prohibition, the Great Depression and jazz. So far the characters to get the noir treatment have been the like of Daredevil, Spider-Man and the X-Men, all well known characters. The next title is Luke Cage, one of Marvel's few black superheroes and a second tier character compared to the X-Men or Spider-Man. Here's the cover:



In my opinion, Luke Cage never looked so good. What an improvement over his corny 1970s days:

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