Black Knight (Marvel Comics)

Black Knight
Black Knight #1 (May 1955) Cover art by Joe Maneely
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Black Knight #1 (May 1955)
Created by	Stan Lee (writer) Joe Maneely (art)
Characters	Sir Percy Nathan Garrett Dane Whitman Augustine du Lac
See also	Ebony Blade The Black Knight lineage
Black Knight
Series publication information
Publisher	(vol 1) Atlas Comics (vol 2) Marvel Comics
Schedule	(vol 1) Bi-monthly (vol 2) Monthly
Format	(vol 1) Ongoing series (vol 2) Limited series
Genre	(vol 1) Fantasy (vol 2) Superhero, magic in comics
Publication date	(vol 1) May – December 1955 (vol 2) June – September 1990
Number of issues	(vol 1) 5 (vol 2) 4
Main character(s)	(both) Sir Percy

The Black Knight is the alias of several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The first is a medieval knight created by writer Stan Lee and artist Joe Maneely, who made his first appearance in Black Knight #1 (May 1955), during the Silver Age of Comics, when Marvel Comics was previously known as Atlas Comics.^[1] The second is a supervillain descendant of the original, created by Lee and artist and co-plotter Dick Ayers, who first appeared in Tales to Astonish #52 (Feb. 1964). The third, created by writer Roy Thomas, production editor John Verpoorten, and artist George Tuska, is the villain's nephew, a superhero and a member of the superhero team the Avengers, who first appeared in The Avengers #47 (Dec. 1967). A fourth Black Knight with no revealed genetic connection debuted in The Black Panther #3 (June 2005), created by writer Reginald Hudlin and penciler John Romita Jr. A fifth, Jackie Chopra, was revealed to be the daughter of Dane Whitman.^[2]

Dane Whitman appears in the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021), portrayed by Kit Harington.