Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet

US$100

Introduced By Walter Mosley

Written by award-winning author and commentator Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet showcases one of Marvel’s most iconic Super Heroes. Folio is proud to publish this groundbreaking tale featuring art by Brian Stelfreeze and an introduction by novelist Walter Mosley.

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet

US$100

Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingBound in blocked laminated paper
Printed in 4-colour throughout
Metallic foil blocked slipcase

Dimensions10½ inches x 7 inches

FontPrelims set in Miller with Benton Sans as display

Pages296 pages

AuthorTa-Nehisi Coates

Publication Date01/11/2022

Editor's Notes

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Discover the saga that sank its claws into a new generation of graphic novel readers. Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet presents all twelve issues of the groundbreaking series written by National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. Featuring T’Challa, the Black Panther – scientist, Super Hero and ruler of the Afrofuturist state of Wakanda – this is a story that heralded a more diverse, more politically astute age of Super Hero comics. Walter Mosley, one of the most respected novelists in America, provides an incisive and heartfelt introduction to this complex drama about T’Challa’s responsibilities as a hero and his obligations to his people. Following the success of Folio’s Marvel Age and Marvel Heroes series, this majestic slipcased edition also features award-winning sequential art by veteran comic-book artist Brian Stelfreeze in a graphic novel truly fit for a king of Marvel Comics.

Hear the new voice of America’s first Black Super Hero

Artist Brian Stelfreeze won a prestigious Glyph Award in 2017 for this saga’s intense, dynamic artwork, with vibrant colours by Laura Martin. Their vision of Wakanda is open to further exploration in this edition, thanks to a detailed map devised by Ta-Nehisi Coates in collaboration with Marvel designer Manny Mederos. Hidebound in supple Balathane Algora, the book itself presents a blind-blocked cover image of T’Challa in brooding silhouette with gleaming silver highlights. Sinuous tribal designs in T’Challa’s signature black and purple envelop the blind-blocked slipcase. One of the most important Marvel comics of recent years, this is a graphic novel from an author and commentator whom The Washington Post named ‘one of the most important Black minds of a generation’. In Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Ta-Nehisi Coates brings a penetrating and authentic voice to one of the most resonant Marvel Super Heroes of the 21st century.

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Hear the new voice of America’s first Black Super Hero

Artist Brian Stelfreeze won a prestigious Glyph Award in 2017 for this saga’s intense, dynamic artwork, with vibrant colours by Laura Martin. Their vision of Wakanda is open to further exploration in this edition, thanks to a detailed map devised by Ta-Nehisi Coates in collaboration with Marvel designer Manny Mederos. Hidebound in supple Balathane Algora, the book itself presents a blind-blocked cover image of T’Challa in brooding silhouette with gleaming silver highlights. Sinuous tribal designs in T’Challa’s signature black and purple envelop the blind-blocked slipcase. One of the most important Marvel comics of recent years, this is a graphic novel from an author and commentator whom The Washington Post named ‘one of the most important Black minds of a generation’. In Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Ta-Nehisi Coates brings a penetrating and authentic voice to one of the most resonant Marvel Super Heroes of the 21st century.

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Hear the new voice of America’s first Black Super Hero

Artist Brian Stelfreeze won a prestigious Glyph Award in 2017 for this saga’s intense, dynamic artwork, with vibrant colours by Laura Martin. Their vision of Wakanda is open to further exploration in this edition, thanks to a detailed map devised by Ta-Nehisi Coates in collaboration with Marvel designer Manny Mederos. Hidebound in supple Balathane Algora, the book itself presents a blind-blocked cover image of T’Challa in brooding silhouette with gleaming silver highlights. Sinuous tribal designs in T’Challa’s signature black and purple envelop the blind-blocked slipcase. One of the most important Marvel comics of recent years, this is a graphic novel from an author and commentator whom The Washington Post named ‘one of the most important Black minds of a generation’. In Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Ta-Nehisi Coates brings a penetrating and authentic voice to one of the most resonant Marvel Super Heroes of the 21st century.

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Hear the new voice of America’s first Black Super Hero

Artist Brian Stelfreeze won a prestigious Glyph Award in 2017 for this saga’s intense, dynamic artwork, with vibrant colours by Laura Martin. Their vision of Wakanda is open to further exploration in this edition, thanks to a detailed map devised by Ta-Nehisi Coates in collaboration with Marvel designer Manny Mederos. Hidebound in supple Balathane Algora, the book itself presents a blind-blocked cover image of T’Challa in brooding silhouette with gleaming silver highlights. Sinuous tribal designs in T’Challa’s signature black and purple envelop the blind-blocked slipcase. One of the most important Marvel comics of recent years, this is a graphic novel from an author and commentator whom The Washington Post named ‘one of the most important Black minds of a generation’. In Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Ta-Nehisi Coates brings a penetrating and authentic voice to one of the most resonant Marvel Super Heroes of the 21st century.

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Hear the new voice of America’s first Black Super Hero

Artist Brian Stelfreeze won a prestigious Glyph Award in 2017 for this saga’s intense, dynamic artwork, with vibrant colours by Laura Martin. Their vision of Wakanda is open to further exploration in this edition, thanks to a detailed map devised by Ta-Nehisi Coates in collaboration with Marvel designer Manny Mederos. Hidebound in supple Balathane Algora, the book itself presents a blind-blocked cover image of T’Challa in brooding silhouette with gleaming silver highlights. Sinuous tribal designs in T’Challa’s signature black and purple envelop the blind-blocked slipcase. One of the most important Marvel comics of recent years, this is a graphic novel from an author and commentator whom The Washington Post named ‘one of the most important Black minds of a generation’. In Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Ta-Nehisi Coates brings a penetrating and authentic voice to one of the most resonant Marvel Super Heroes of the 21st century.

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Hear the new voice of America’s first Black Super Hero

Artist Brian Stelfreeze won a prestigious Glyph Award in 2017 for this saga’s intense, dynamic artwork, with vibrant colours by Laura Martin. Their vision of Wakanda is open to further exploration in this edition, thanks to a detailed map devised by Ta-Nehisi Coates in collaboration with Marvel designer Manny Mederos. Hidebound in supple Balathane Algora, the book itself presents a blind-blocked cover image of T’Challa in brooding silhouette with gleaming silver highlights. Sinuous tribal designs in T’Challa’s signature black and purple envelop the blind-blocked slipcase. One of the most important Marvel comics of recent years, this is a graphic novel from an author and commentator whom The Washington Post named ‘one of the most important Black minds of a generation’. In Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Ta-Nehisi Coates brings a penetrating and authentic voice to one of the most resonant Marvel Super Heroes of the 21st century.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates was born in Baltimore, the son of William Paul Coates, a former Black Panther and founder of Black Classic Press. Coates attended Howard University in Washington DC, before leaving to become a journalist. He wrote for several publications including The Village Voice and Time, but it was his essays on racism and the African American experience for The Atlantic that won him global attention and critical acclaim. He has published several works of non-fiction, including a memoir, The Beautiful Struggle (2008), and Between the World and Me (2015), for which he won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. He has written several Marvel Comics including Black Panther and Captain America. His first novel, The Water Dancer, was published in 2019 and he received a MacArthur Fellowship in the same year.

Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish mother and African American father. He earned a degree in political science at Johnson State College in Vermont before moving to New York. While working as a computer programmer for Mobil Oil, Mosley became inspired by Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. He enrolled in a writing course at the City College of New York where he was tutored by Irish novelist and playwright Edna O’Brien. He published his first novel in 1990, Devil in a Blue Dress, a hardboiled noir featuring African American private investigator ‘Easy’ Rawlins. Mosley went on to publish over 60 books ranging from non-fiction to science fiction, each offering a unique racial perspective on both genre and American history. Mosley has also written for television and theatre and has won over a dozen awards. In 2013 he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. A lifelong comic book fan, Mosley has over 30,000 in his collection.