Meet Bungleton Greenan anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero, created more than a decade before characters such as Black Panther and Falcon.In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jacksona former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaperThe Chicago Defenderdid something unexpected.

He took theDefendersstale and long-running gag stripBungletonGreenand remade it into a gripping, anti-racist science fiction adventure comic. He teamed the bumblingGreenwith a crew of Black teens called the Mystic Commandos, and together, they battled the enemies of America and racial equality in the past, present, and future. Nazis, segregationist senators, Benedict Arnold, fifth columnists, 18th-century American slave traders, evil scientists, and a nation of racistGreenMen all faced off against the Mystic Commandos andGreen, who in the strips run would be transformed by Jackson into the first-ever Black superhero.

Never before collected or republished, Jacksons stories are packed with jaw-dropping twists and breathtaking action, and present a radical vision of a brighter American future.