{"id":2178,"date":"2011-03-05T08:58:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2011-03-05T08:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T15:58:32","slug":"minimate-spotlight-42-black-panther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/minimate-spotlight-42-black-panther\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #42 Black Panther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #b18d58\">Action figures have long been a perfect compliment to comic books, since every kid (or kid at heart) has that natural desire to act out adventures with their favorite heroes off the drawn page. <\/span><span style=\"color: #b18d58\">Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/donny-b.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donny B<\/a> will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum&#8217;s take on the &#8216;block figure&#8217;, with a weekly spotlight on <em><strong>Minimates<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stan Lee &amp; Jack Kirby&#8217;s <strong>Black Panther<\/strong> is celebrated as the first black super hero in mainstream comics, having debuted in <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> #52 in July of 1966. T&#8217;Challa is king\/head-of-state of\u00a0the\u00a0(fictional) African nation <em>Wakanda<\/em>, and head of the Panther Tribe (the\u00a0lead tribe of the Wakanda nation). Being head of the lead tribe brings with it the Black Panther mantle, which serves both\u00a0in a diplomatic capacity as well a super heroics.<\/p>\n<p>Black Panther married X-Men team member Storm, and shortly after lost his powers as his sister Shuri took up the mantle of Black Panther. T&#8217;Challa now resides in Hell&#8217;s Kitchen,\u00a0at the request of DareDevil.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Minimate incarnation\u00a0we have been given of Black Panther is T&#8217;Challa in his BP costume just before losing his position\u00a0and powers. His\u00a0&#8216;iconic&#8217; look is sans cape,\u00a0and\u00a0AA\u00a0designed this &#8216;mate\u00a0with\u00a0fans of the traditional costume in mind &#8211; simply remove the extra pieces to reveal the old school Black Panther costume!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Minimates_2011_03-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2179\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Minimates_2011_03-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Minimates_2011_03-05.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Minimates_2011_03-05-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040\"><strong>Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another straight-up photograph, with just some minor photoshopping to tweak\u00a0color contrasts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On Ebay<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22black+panther%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Black Panther<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On AtomicAvenue<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=black+panther&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Black Panther<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action figures have long been a perfect compliment to comic books, since every kid (or kid at heart) has that natural desire to act out adventures with their favorite heroes off the drawn page. Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, Donny B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minimate-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}