Cat Scans: The Top 20 Coolest ‘Black Panther’ Comics Covers*

We clawed our way through 4 decades of Marvel comics, True Believer.

Credit: Marvel Comics

*Originally featured on the Krypton Radio website (Feb 26, 2018)

Beauty, as goes the popular maxim, is in the eye of the beholder. And the same thing goes for coolness, too. But what’s cool to one person may only be, figuratively speaking, about room temp to another.

After seeing this carefully curated list of the 20 coolest Black Panther comic book covers, though, we’re sure you’ll agree that the ones collected here are all pretty darn cool.

The task of putting this list together, however, was pretty darn hard. Well, much harder than originally expected.

Historically speaking, Marvel’s Black Panther has never been one of the company’s most successful and thus continuously published titles. Not like, say, The Fantastic Four, Amazing Spider-Man, or Uncanny X-Men. In fact, since the first series was launched back in 1977, there have been 5 different Black Panther comic book series, the most recent of these launched in 2016.

Some volumes, like the 2005 series (vol. 4), which featured stories by Reginald Hudlin and Jonathan Maberry, lasted only a year before cancellation. Others, like the 1998 Black Panther…