Marvel spotlights Black creators and characters for Black History Month 2022 with Legacy anthology - morrowachwithed

Marvel spotlights Black creators and characters for Black History Calendar month 2022 with Legacy anthology

Marvel's Voices: Legacy #1 cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Wonder's Voices: Legacy #1 will bring in concert Black creators and characters in February to celebrate Clothed History Month, which is observed in the US all month long. The anthology single-shooter is the latest in the newspaper publisher's Marvel's Voices line, which spotlights marginalized characters and creators in themed collections.

Among the stories told in the one-scene, recent Wonder writer and unreal law-breaking novelist Victor LaValle will offer up his yield on Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl. Meantime Lunella's own co-creator Natacha Bustos tries her hand at written material as well As art with a story set in Wakanda.

Additionally, Luke Cage gets a spotlight from current Astonishing Spider-Man 'Beyond Board' co-author Cody Ziglar for his 50th day of remembrance having debuted clear back in 1972's Luke Cage: Hero for Hire #1. And writer J. Holtham, known for his work connected Netflix's Jessica Jones Marvel show and Hulu's Cloak & Dagger Marvel adaptation, will get on recent Marvel TV star SAM Charles Thomson Rees Wilson in a story centered on his legacy as the one-time Captain America.

Writer/artist Calophyllum longifolium Frolich is also catalogued in both roles in Marvel's credits for the anthology, though the announcement doesn't say what character or characters she'll be working on. Likewise, aside from Bustos and Frolich, neither Marvel's proclamation nor the included credits list the artists of the one-shot.

"Over the last 4 years, Marvel's Voices has expanded and mature exponentially," states Marvel's Voices: Legacy #1 consulting editor and host of the Wonder's Voices podcast Angélique Roché in the announcement.

"Most significantly, Marvel's Voices has served as both an unveiling point and gathering place for fans and creatives radical and old; spotlighting our voices and the diversity of storytelling in the Marvel Cosmos," she continues.

"Marvel's Voices: Legacy #1 in 2022 not only marks the beginning of a New Year of Marvel's Voices anthologies but a slating of incredible future content, including our premier Wonder's Voices trades and collections, a mark new podcast season, and so much more."

Marvel's Voices: Legacy #1 goes on sale on February 16, 2022, with a cover from ChrisCross. Stay tuned to Newsarama for Marvel's full February 2022 solicitations, coming advanced this month.

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