First Appearance of Comics Character Luke Cage in Hero For Hire | Comic Releases, First Appearances | Mar 21, 1972
With a cover date of (June 1972), Marvel Comics released the first issue of Luke Cage: Hero For Hire on March 21st of that year, introducing the world to Luke Cage. Created during the height of the blaxploitation genre, the character Luke Cage was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Cage gained the ….