Luke Cage - Classic Comic Look, with Fro!

A young black, Harlem, street-punk, gang member (Of course. At the time, Marvel wouldn’t have it any other way) named “Lucas” who was ended up serving time in the big house for heroin that was obviously planted in his apartment by a rival gang member.

While in Seagate Prison, research scientist for the government, Dr. Noah Burstein recruits Lucas as a “volunteer” for an experimental cell regeneration experiment, which just so happens to be based on a variant of the Super-Soldier serum Burstein had previously helped to create.

Volunteering for the experiment was done in exchange for an early parole for Lucas. If you know your history, you can see the irony here since the government has been known to do THE EXACT OPPOSITE to the American black man where they actually injected them with syphilis to see what would happen.

Jesus, our loving government working hard to support the disenfranchised, and people wonder why the black man hates Whitey so damn much. I would too with that kind of loving government support.

Well, the experiment didn’t go as planned, since it was sabotaged by a security guard hoping to kill young Lucas. Instead of finding a cure to any illnesses, it accidentally, oops, granted a streetwise felon titanium-hard skin and mega-heavier, enhanced muscle mass.

The New Luke Cage In The New Avengers

Lucas uses his new found power to escape Seagate Prison and makes his way back to Harlem, where a chance encounter with criminals inspires him to use his new powers for profit. Hey, if you’re going to do the right thing and help people, you might as well get paid for it, right?

Lucas created the identity of “Luke Cage – Hero For Hire,” a superhero private dick. Cage eventually formed a business partnership with Iron Fist. Through the groundbreaking series Power Man & Iron Fist, the two became one of the better-known superhero duos of the 1970s.

To practice brevity here, Marvel creates the New Avengers, dusts off the yellow silk top and looses the chain and wrist bracers, and tiara, and shaves the fro off Cage’s head and gives him a whole new look.

Behold, the New Avenger Luke cage. Tyrese Gibson is supposed to be playing Cage in the Luke Cage movie which is to hit the screens in 2011. Tyrese is a famous rapper, actor, model, and MTV VJ.

Maybe you remember seeing him as one of the bad ass soldiers in Transformers. We can’t wait to see this movie! Now if only we had some Luke Cage merchandise and t-shirts to shlep!

Tyrese Gibson is Luke Cage