Kirby abandoned that approach in the second half of his run, and thus, for the VOLUME 2 stories (originally published in 1977-1978), we find the Panther back in the fictional African country of Wakanda. That’s what Jack Kirby had him doing in BLACK PANTHER #s 1-7, originally published in 1976-1977 and collected in BLACK PANTHER BY JACK KIRBY VOLUME 1. Should Marvel’s Black Panther hunt for ancient treasure, ala Indiana Jones?
If you like more serious versions of Black Panther that address social and racial concerns, this is probably not your Black Panther. Whiplash, though, oh boy! This is rollicking science fantasy laced with absurdity. remember Argo? They actually shot but didn't use a scene with Jack Kirby. Kirby's work on a film adaptation of Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light would be used to help some of the American hostages out of Iran. It isn't Star Wars, but it's clearly a nod to Star Wars. Oh, and a lost Black Panther will stumble across a science-fiction movie filming in the North African desert. There will be a Council of relatives of the Black Panther who will come together from across the world to battle that half-brother while T'Challa is stuck in the samurai kingdom. There will be a half-brother of T'Challa (that is, the Black Panther) who will seize control of the kingdom of Wakanda. There will also be a hidden kingdom founded by seven samurai. But the time machine will eventually pull in a dangerous, hyper-evolved human from millions of years in the future. I mean, a time machine shaped like a frog (why?) is weird enough. It's great lunacy, mile-a-second action, wild double-page spreads, and some of the oddest of Kirby's 1970's narratives.
This is Jack Kirby in full-on lunacy mode. Together, the two assume, the two frogs should form a controllable time machine. It periodically pulls someone or something in from another time.
Little on a quest to find the second of two objects known as King Solomon's Frogs. Kirby's Black Panther is a super-scientific adventurer whose first multi-issue adventure involves a team-up with a diminuitive collector of weird antiquities named Mr. Readers who followed the character from one book to the next must have suffered from whiplash. Jack Kirby's Black Panther followed the cancellation of Jungle Action and the premature end to Don McGregor and Billy Graham's run on Black Panther in that Marvel comic book.
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