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The new Black Panther incarnation certainly is that. This second volume of Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet which takes its title from a Pulitzer Prize winning book about African American political history is just as dense with crisscrossed narratives, tangled motivations and previously established plotlines as the first volume was. Which is appropriate, considering the Panther’s place in the history of comics: Created in 1966, he was mainstream comics’ first black superhero, an avatar of racial progress.