Contemporary Black Superheroes

This Black History Month (or any month), check out these teen graphic novels featuring contemporary Black superheroes!

Updated February 3, 2026
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Quincredible : the hero within
Barnes, Rodney (Producer)
Paper Book
"A heartfelt voyage through time and space." - Kirkus Rodney Barnes and Selina Espiritu return for another Quincredible adventure, this time diving into the world of Voodoo. Quinton West is back as the would-be hero of his city New Orleans, battling against a new enemy who...
Spider-Man : Miles Morales
Bendis, Brian Michael
Paper Book
Miles Morales is hitting the big time! Not only is he joining the Marvel Universe, but he's also a card-carrying Avenger! But how have Miles' first eight months been, coming to grips with an All-new , All-Different new York? One thing is the same - nonstop action! Like when Earth's Mightiest Heroes...
Black
Osajyefo, Kwanza
Paper Book
In a world that already hates and fears them - what ifonly Black people had superpowers. After miraculously surviving being gunneddown by police, a young man learns that he is part of the biggest lie inhistory. Now he must decide whether it's safer to keep it a secret or if...
Black Panther & the crew : we are the streets
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Paper Book
Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold band together to take on a dangerous wave of street-level threats in a new series by co-writers Ta-Nehisi Coates (New York Times best-selling author of Between the World and Me and Marvel's Black Panther) and Yona Harvey (Black Panther:...
Black Panther. Book 1A nation under our feet
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Paper Book
MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winner T- Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda. When a superhuman terrorist group that calls itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology...
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur [1] : BFF
Montclare, Brandon
Paper Book
LUNELLA LAFAYETTE is a preteen super genius who wants to change the world-but learned the hard way that it takes MORE than just big brains. Fearful of the monstrous INHUMAN genes inside her, life is turned upside down when a savage, red-scaled tyrant is teleported from prehistoric past to a far...
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2015), Volume 2 Cosmic Cooties
Reeder, Amy M.
Ebook
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Vol. 4, Girl-moon
Montclare, Brandon
Paper Book
Journey to the Living Planet! It's Lunella Lafayette's biggest adventure yet, as a voice from the outer reaches of space beckons her and Devil Dinosaur on a truly fantastic voyage - an Ego trip, if you will! Are you ready for Moon Girl to meet... Girl-Moon? Lunella isn't just smart, she's the...
Captain America : Sam Wilson. Vol. 1
Spencer, Nick
Ebook

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