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Issue 38: This issue focuses on the electrifying metahuman, Black Lightning CBN Season 4 | Issue 38 | Black Lightning *Use the hashtag #CBNpod when listening to this episode Black Lightning is a superhero in DC Comics. He was created by writer Tony Isabella and artist Trevor Von Eeden, first appearing in Black Lightning # 1 (April 1977) during the Bronze Age of Comic Books. He is a metahuman; Born Jefferson Pierce, he grew up in the disreputable Southside section of Metropolis known as Suicide Slum. He is capable of electrical manipulation and generation. Black Lightning is DC Comics' first African American superhero and the first to star in their own series for the DC imprint. The original candidate for DC Comics' first headlining black superhero was a character called the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress, but would later be described by comics historian Don Markstein as "an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all." When the editor who