Contemporary Black Superheroes

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

Updated February 3, 2026
Bibliomation Southbury Library
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Clock striker. Volume 1, "I'm gonna be a SMITH!"
Galadima, Issaka
Paper Book
"""I'm gonna be a SMITH,"" says defiant teenager Cast, who will let nothing prevent herfrom becoming one of the elite warrior engineers!"
The black mage
Barnes, Daniel
Paper Book
When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizardingschool, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes thatthe wizarding community is finally taking its first crucial steps towardinclusivity. Or is it? When Tom Token, the beneficiary of the school...
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...

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