Jungle Action #19

This January 1976 issue of Jungle Action opens a bold new chapter for T'Challa, announced right on the cover as "An All-New Black Panther Epic!" Gil Kane and Dan Adkins deliver a striking cover image: the Black Panther leaps into fierce combat against a robed Klan member brandishing a knife, while a young Black woman nearby braces against the threat of more white-robed figures pressing in from the sides — all set against an urban backdrop that makes the confrontation feel urgently contemporary. Don McGregor's script, brought to life by artist Billy Graham and inker Bob McLeod, promises exactly the kind of socially charged storytelling the cover teases with its blunt subtitle, Sacrifice of Blood.