Warner Bros. movie Black Superman sees DC Comics eBay sales explode

With Your Nehisi-Coates join JJ Abrams By creating a new Superman movie for Warner Bros., The Hollywood Reporter was able to confirm that the project would feature a Black Superman. Now, this is nothing new to the comics. Across a variety of Elseworlds, parallel dimensions, and sidekicks, there have been black Supermen before. Most of them were created by Grant Morrison and his former sidekick Mark Millar. And eBay is exploding with a few of them as a result.

Final crisis # 7 featured the first appearance of Calvin Ellis, created by Grant Morrison and Doug Mahnke, who in his own world is a black Superman president of the United States. Final Crisis # 7 CGC 9.8 sold for $ 600, or $ 157 gross, a comic that sold for $ 3 a week ago. Action comics # 9, which features the character on the cover, sold CGC 9.8 for $ 200 or $ 99 gross.

It will also appear this week Infinite border # 0 of DC Comics, which is good timing.

While Val-Zod is the superman of Earth-2, created by Tom Taylor, Nicola Scott and Robson Rocha. Her first cameo appearance Earth 2 # 19 sold for $ 200 CGC 9.8 and $ 30 gross. His full appearance (and on the cover) in Earth 2 # 25 sold CGC 9.8 for $ 200 or $ 25 gross.

A third candidate is Tangent Superman, the Superman from another dimension, originally a human man named Harvey Dent. Created by Jupiter’s legacyof Mark Millar and Jackson guice. He became dark and vengeful, taking control of the world, allowing no freedom of thought. Tangent: Superman # 1 sells for around $ 2 if you’re lucky.

There’s also Superman of Earth D by Marv Wolfman and Paul Ryan from Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths, where Superman and Supergirl are both black.

And, well, that Superman is dead. Not that that means a lot these days. And the copies have sold for around $ 20 on eBay in recent days.

And then there was Grant Morrison’s first attempt with Chas Doug in Animal man # 23, for the Silver Age Sunshine Superman pastiche character – along with others.

It just sold for … three dollars. And as with the black Kryptonians, there is also the notorious misstep. When DC Comics decided to become a bit more aware of racial concerns in the ’70s, they wanted to explain why no one had seen a Black Kryptonian. And so concocted a tale of a remote island called Valtho Island on Krypton where all Kryptonians lived. Yeah. Most people have therefore tried to ignore it.

A casual reference to the island was made in Alan moore and Dave Gibbons’ Continuity-rich dream Superman story For the man who has everything, in Superman Yearly # 11, regarding “racial issues with immigrants from Vathlo Island”. Currently $ 195 CGC 9.8 and $ 45 gross.

A black Kryptonian named Iph-Ro of Vathlo appeared in Superman: Man of Steel # 111 (less than $ 3). Recently DC just showed black Kyrptonians integrated with the rest of the world that look like humanity. And Calvin Ellis, President Superman is said to hail from the Vathlo Island of Krypton in his reality.

But I also remembered something Marlon Brando once said when he was approached to work on the original. Superman: the movie. Richard Donner recalled;

Brando lived in LA and I had to go meet him. I called Jay Kanter, who was a very powerful agent and a studio executive, and I said, “Can you give me any clues?” And he said, “He’s going to want to play like a green suitcase.” I said, “What does that mean?” “That means he hates working and loves money, so if he can tell you that people on Krypton look like green suitcases and you only shoot green suitcases, he’ll be paid just for doing the voice over. how his mind works. “I said, ‘F-‘, then I called Francis Coppola. He said, ‘He’s brilliant. He has a brilliant mind. But he likes to talk. Make him talk, and he’ll clear up any trouble. “

And then by meeting Brando.

He said, “Why don’t I play that like a bagel?” I was ready for him to say “a green suitcase” and he said “bagel”. He said, “How do we know what the people of Krypton looked like?” He had good logic. He said, “Maybe they looked like bagels up there then?” I said, “Damn, Marlon, let me tell you something.” He had just told us the story of a child [and how smart he was] and I said, “It’s 1939. There’s not a kid in the world who doesn’t know what Jor-El looks like, and he looks like Marlon Brando.” And he looked at me and smiled [and said], “I talk too much, don’t I?” He said, “OK. Show me the wardrobe.”

So why does Superman look like humans anyway? At DC Comics, there is a theory that Thanagarians and Kryptonians descend from space Atlanteans. In Elliot S! Maggin’s Romanization of Superman: Man of Steel, there is the suggestion that the inhabitants of Earth, Krypton and others are descended from an ancient common race.

But DC Comics has already released another comic with a “Black Superman” archetype, Icon, which is part of the Milestone line. He’s an alien who originally looked very different from humans, but his escape pod that landed on Earth programmed to transform him to look like the first sentient being that encountered him. The pod landed in the southern United States in 1839.

And speaking of nothing, Icon just sold on eBay CGC 9.8 for $ 250 and $ 50 gross.

Could the new movie steal some Icon for their new icon? What if Kryptonians looked like bagels or green suitcases? What if the shape Superbaby chooses is that of the person who finds them? What if it wasn’t Jonathan and Martha Kent but someone else?

The mother’s name must remain Martha, of course. You can’t play with it.