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Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, Samurai, and El Dorado. The 70’s answer to diversity.

As you probably can tell Black Vulcan looks an awful lot like Black Lightning and that is who he is modeled after. According to legend, the name, costume, and some of the specific powers were changed from B.L to B.V. in order to hold down royalty payments for B.L.’s creators. Not sure if that’s true or not, but it’s been around the comicverse enough to mention it.

Apache Chief has appeared in a “new” version called Manitou Raven that does not appear until 2002. Whiel Apache Chief was pretty clear with his power to enlarge himself with his magic word “Inik Chuk”, Manitou Raven appears as an ancient shaman/medicine man character steeped in the magicks of his people.

Samurai has appeared in comics briefly off an on, but mostly Samurai here serves as a substitute for Red Tornado since his mode of transport is to convert or enshroud his lower body with a tornado like form in order to travel. Uttering his mantra Samurai could also turn invisible on occasion, and one assumes that he conducted himself by the code of Bushido and had martial arts training, More >