*Marvel:  Writer Don McGregor’s 1970s run on the Black Panther strip in Jungle Action was renowned for its ambitious, philosophical, emotionally textured, and verbose – by Cracky, was it verbose – nature, receiving acclaim and derision in roughly equal proportions. Following Jack Kirby’s very different take on T’Challa in the Panther’s first solo series, McGregor made a return to Wakanda in a serial in Marvel Comics Presents, and subsequently in this four-part, squarebound Prestige Format series, in which T’Challa, the Black Panther, is being hunted in Wakanda by Solomon Prey, a taloned and winged villain who is also setting himself up as the kingdom’s resident illegal drug lord — while, at the same time, T’Challa decides to reunite with his former love, Monica Lynne. Duty, love, responsibility, obsession, obligation and philosophy are the themes on display, as well as a fair bit of gratuitous violence and flying dinosaurs, because, well, why wouldn’t you? So is McGregor rambling loon or unacclaimed genius… or a bit of both? Buy this complete NM Prestige Format mini-series and find out! £20 for the set of 4.
PICTURED: BLACK PANTHER: PANTHER’S PREY #1 (SET OF #1-4 NM £20)