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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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!"
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...
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
Ebook
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. Vol. 3, The smartest there is!
Montclare, Brandon
Paper Book
Tony Stark, Victor von Doom, T'Challa, Amadeus Cho...the greatest minds in the Marvel Universe all have one thing in common: they're not smarter than a 4th grader! That's right, the rumors are true - Lunella Lafayette is the smartest there is! Now it's time to put her unrivaled intellect to the...
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Vol. 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. Vol. 2, Cosmic cooties
Montclare, Brandon
Paper Book
After Lunella teleports a dinosaur and evil humanoids to the middle of her gym class, the big dino whisks her off to the city, but when she thinks she's safe, the Killer Folk kidnap the super genius. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. 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. 1, Not my Captain America
Spencer, Nick
Paper Book
When Steve Rogers was restored to his natural age, he chose one of his closest and most trusted allies to take up his shield: Sam Wilson, formerly the Avenger known as the Falcon! But Sam isn't Steve, and after recent events he's on the outs with both his old friend and S.H.I.E.L.D. Things get...

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