“So, I had to flesh out the story a little bit and add a few more themes to it.” “I had to go from a six-issue comic book to 90,000 words,” said Holland. Holland started with the classic Black Panther origin story written by Reginald Hudlin and fleshed it out. Holland said that Marvel asked him to develop a mythology around the character that would be relatable to modern audiences. “And here I was ignoring them, because I was associating with everybody else.” My first friend was…Black,” Kirby said in the interview.
Marvel’s Black Panther character has existed since the 1960s and preceded the launch of the Black Panther political party, by just a few months.Īccording to, in a 1990 interview with “The Comics Journal,” co-creator Jack Kirby said that he came up with the Black Panther when he realized that he didn’t have any Black characters in his growing Marvel Universe. Holland went back and read Black Panther comic books written by Reginald Hudlin and Christopher Priest he even went back to the very beginning with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. When Marvel offered to send him some Black Panther comic books for background material, he told them, “You don’t have to, because I already own them.” Luckily, Holland had been a Black Panther fan since he was a child. Holland said that there was just one catch: The entire novel had to be written in six months.
“ was making a movie about the Black Panther and wanted to know if I would be interested in writing the first novel about the iconic Marvel character,” said Holland. Holland said that “Finn’s Story” landed him on Marvel’s radar. An editor from Lucas Films read “The Invisibles” and loved it, Holland said, and reached out to him to write a history for Finn, the African American character in “Stars Wars: The Force Awakens.” Those conversations led to Holland’s novel “Star Wars: The Force Awakens-Finn’s Story.” Jesse Holland’s novel “Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther?” gives readers an in-depth look into T’Challa’s world and the lives of the other characters in Marvel’s groundbreaking “Black Panther” film.
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