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M.A.N.T.I.S.

Every February, in both the US and Canada, there's a special designation for what is, unfortunately, the  shortest month of the year: African-American History Month (or simply Black History Month if you’re in Canada). While I don’t have a direct personal or familial connection to that community myself these days, I feel the blog should still spotlight thematically-appropriate media, especially media that we may remember fondly, but has largely been overlooked. For this post, we’ll be looking at one of the first African-American superheroes on TV. No, not Zack Taylor/the Black Ranger as made famous by Walter Emanuel Jones... this isn’t a Power Rangers post. The hero we're talking about is recognized as the first African-American superhero on TV in the US - in prime time, no less! Not only that, as if the creators weren't defying standard superhero tropes enough (especially for the early 90s), the titular superhero character was also disabled. Ring any vague bells, 90s kids?...