The Falcon: The Untold Truth Of The Marvel Superhero
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With the Disney+ debut of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson is set to take on a leading role in the MCU - so there's no better time to find out a little more about his comic book history. This is the untold truth of the Falcon.
The Falcon first debuted in Captain America 117, which was published all the way back in 1969. In this comic, Sam Wilson is a resident of Harlem who discovers that a group of Hydra agents, led by the Red Skull, are operating out of a tropical island called Exile. Wilson and his trained falcon, Redwing, soon discover the group's nefarious plan, and along the way he learns that they've been enslaving indigenous tribes on the island. Sam is then encouraged by Captain America himself to adopt a superhero moniker of his own and save the islanders from the Red Skull's men.
Artist Gene Colan had the idea for the Falcon partly as a response to the civil rights movement, and, for a number of reasons, he's generally regarded as one of the more empowering characters of the Silver Age of Comics. For one, he's arguably the first mainstream Black hero to not actually have the word Black in his name. Falcon was also considered an equal to Captain America, rather than a sidekick, and the two famously received co-billing in the ongoing Captain America series for almost a hundred issues. Date: 2021-03-19
King31395 Awesome rundown of Falcon's history - never knew ANY of this stuff (except for the Avengers issue when he joins the Avengers - ultimately forcing out Hawkeye, btw: ) Clint was pissed)
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Jonlynn The Malcom Spellman pictured is not the correct man. The man pictured is a CIA well decorated man that written many books of espionage. reply
