All of the brilliant individuals in the Marvel Universe; all of the powerful individuals whose abilities run well into molecular rearrangement and reality warping. But the answer is no. That would defeat their intent.
Have you asked yourself yet why it was even necessary to show his face? Because Marvel wanted you to see that this was a Black man, a noble Black monolith by every definition of that word, that they had done this to. Chained up, in a box, with some White guys standing over him shedding crocodile tears.
Welcome to Marvel Comics, boys and girls. It's much more subtle here in these parts, but the peculiar ideology persists even here. Enjoy your stay.
I think having Luke grow a bit, get married and have a child in theory could have been some pretty interesting character development. The problem was that Marvel didn't build a solid ongoing for him at that point. He just sort of was hanging out Bendis's Avengers where not a lot happened ( despite selling well). David Walker's Power Man/Fist wasn't bad, but Stanford Green's art may have been too unconventional for some fans.
Artists tend to forget Tombstone (Spider-Man) is black... so even villainy isn't safe.
And after Power Man/Iron Fist by Walker, I also recall Walker doing a Luke Cage solo run that lasted about 10 issues.
That's a good point there. And speaking of black albino villains . . . there's also Nekra, who started out as a Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) foe.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Nekra pre-dates Spider Woman. She was one of Steve Gerber's weird satire characters from the early 70's as a black albino person...Gerber also created Mandrill around the same time which I have problems with... Having said that, I thought Steve Englehart used her in an interesting way in Vision/Scarlet Witch in the 80's. There's a late 70's Avengers comic where the villain Grim Reaper is shown to be mildly prejudiced referring to Wanda as a "stinking mutant". In the later comic he's dating Nekra and she's happy that he's with her even though she's black and he says something like, "No don't say that! You're the whitest women I've ever seen!!"
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That's actually a good point. A lot of the people who complain about certain books based on them supposedly not being visually appealing enough do seem to have slightly less problems enduring the same (or similar) kind of artwork if it's attached to a bigger-name character. If Chris Bachalo can still get work despite his art being rather hard to interpret at times . . .
The spider is always on the hunt.