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Black Lightning 1 |
| Item: |
Black Lightning 1 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1027215002
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Owner Comments
Picked up for $70 on ebay. First appearance of Black Lightning!
Jefferson Pierce was a graduate from Garfield High in Metropolis who went on to be an Olympic decathlon star and later a teacher. Before he became a teacher however he graduated form Kent State University with a teaching degree in Physics. As a teacher he worked for New Carthage and later at the same Garfield High that he graduated from. Jefferson wasted no time is getting in trouble with a gang of drug pushers who were connected with the 100. He did this by trying to clean the school of the pushers. In a fight a student named Earl Clifford helped Jefferson and was later killed for his efforts by a gang leader known as Joey Toledo. This is the catalyst that turns Jefferson into the famed Black Lightning.
Distraught over the death of Earl, Jefferson turns to a man named Peter Gambi who owned a tailor shop that Jefferson and his mother lived above while he was growing up and who became very close to as a child. Peter made a costume for Jefferson when he came back as if he knew that this would happen and when Jefferson came to Peter he presented it to him. With the addition of the mask Jefferson's identity became secure but now as the Black lightning he also disguised his voice and added a lot of street vocabulary and slang while he was in his Black Lightning persona. Synopsis courtesy of comicvine.com!
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