All-Negro Comics #1

Year: 1947

Significance:

• First known comic book written and drawn exclusively by African Americans
• Featured characters such as Lion Man, Dew Dillies, Ace Harlem, and Sugarfoot
• Known creatives who worked on this book include: Orinn Cromwell Evans, Bill Driscoll, John Terrell, Leonard Cooper, and George J Evans Jr.
• A second issue was planned but vendors refused to sell Evans the paper to print it.

A copy of All-Negro Comics #1 can be read online at afrovana.com :