![]() (Hawkgirl’s mace and wings looked too cool for younger-me not to love Hawkgirl the most.)īecause I’d watched Stewart on Static Shock, and Justice League, but never Justice League Unlimited, it never quite clicked there was a whole corps until a decade later (with Far Sector). In all my SFF media as a child, Stewart was one of the only Black men who had a recurring presence, even if he wasn’t my favorite character on the particular show. Decades later, young-me watching Warner Bros.’ Saturday morning cartoons would grow up only knowing John Stewart as Green Lantern. His introduction into comics in Green Lantern #87, in January 1972, made John Stewart one of the first Black superheroes ever in DC Comics. However, it helps prelude his involvement in the Justice League ( Reading Order), which forms a prominent piece of John's story in the next era.When DC duo Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adam created Green Lantern John Stewart, they modeled him after famous Bahamian American actor Sir Sidney Poitier.
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