He is the first black superhero in mainstream American comics
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Top 10 Black Panther Facts
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The Black Panther's name predates the October 1966 founding of the Black Panther Party
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A giant meteorite filled with Vibranium gave an unbreakable metal to the Panther's country of Wakanda; it also infected a plant which gives Panther special abilities.
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He and the X-Men's Storm were married.
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Prize-winner writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is himself a former member of the Black Panthers, is scripting a 2016 Black Panther comic book.
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The Black Panther title is handed down through generations, going back 10,000 years
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A giant meteorite filled with Vibranium gave an unbreakable metal to the Panther's
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Wesley Snipes was so keen to play the Black Panther on film that he wrote a script himself.
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T'Challa graduated from Oxford with a PhD in Physics.
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He was the leader of the Fantastic Four for a while.
