Black Goliath

Long before Icon, Hardware, or Shadowman, this fifteen-foot-tall black super-hero was thwarting criminals—white, brown, and black, as well as extraterrestrial—in his own series. It began when Bill Foster helped Avenger Henry Pym, the original Goliath, fight the side-effects of his super-powers. In doing so, Foster learned and perfected the ability to grow fifteen feet in an instant.

But being a super-hero wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, as Black Goliath discovered when he lost his girlfriend and realized that the public cared less about his true exploits than about gossip and rumor.

This series, which only had a five-issue run, may simply have been before its time.

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#1

Feb 1976

Cover: $0.25

W: Tony Isabella · A: George Tuska

1st Appearance Atom-Smasher; 1st appearance Dale West; 1st appearance Herbert Bell; 1st appearance Talia Kruma; Origin of Black Goliath

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#2

Apr 1976

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W: Chris Claremont · A: George Tuska

1st appearance Celia ’Ceil’ Jackson; 2nd Appearance Atom-Smasher

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#3

Jun 1976

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W: Chris Claremont · A: George Tuska

1st appearance Vulcan; Death of Atom-Smasher; Kurt Busiek L.O.C.

6 copies from $5.50
#4

Aug 1976

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W: Chris Claremont · A: Rich Buckler

Versus Stilt Man

2 copies from $7.50
#5

Nov 1976

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont · A: Keith Pollard

Final Issue; Story continues in Champions #11

3 copies from $5.98