Black Hammer

<h4>Osvaldo Oyola is a lecturer in the New York University Expository Writing Program and writes on pop culture, race, and gender on his own blog, <a href="http://www.themiddlespaces.com"><em>The Middle Spaces</em></a>, focusing on popular music and comic books. He serves on the Executive Committee for the International Comics Art Forum, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up.</h4>

Osvaldo Oyola

House of Secrets: Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s “Black Hammer: Secret Origins”

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

Black Panther

Between the World and Wakanda: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze’s “Black Panther”

Osvaldo Oyola is a lecturer in the New York University Expository Writing Program and writes on pop culture, race, and gender on his own blog, <a href="http://www.themiddlespaces.com"><em>The Middle Spaces</em></a>, focusing on popular music and comic books. He serves on the Executive Committee for the International Comics Art Forum, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up.