Physicist Al B. Harper is one of Marvel’s original Black characters who first made an appearance in a 1969 issue of the Silver Surfer.
. He said the character of Ghost Light has been nearly 60 years in the making.
Graphic novelist, author, publisher and media professor at UCR, John Jennings is bringing Ghost Light back to life. Jennings has a five-book miniseries working with an all-Black creative team, hoping to diversify the comic book industry in Riverside on Thursday, March 2, 2023. The new series is also the first time Silver Surfer, a fan-favorite cosmic hero from the planet Zenn-La,
Jennings saw great potential in bringing Harper’s character back to life, with cosmic abilities that come from the Silver Surfer’s powers. He pitched the idea of a mini-series to Marvel, which greenlighted the project in 2020, and started working with other Black creatives for the project over the past few years.
The cover of Marvel’s new mini-series “Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1,” which hit stores in February, features the character Al B. Harper, a Black physicist who sacrificed his life to save the world in the original 1969 comic created by Stan Lee and John Buscema. In the revival series, written by UC Riverside professor John Jennings, Harper comes back to life as a cosmic superhero, known as the Ghost Light.
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