I'd like to recommend a really interesting article on colorism in pre-digitally colored comics (so broadly speaking, all or most comics published in the 20th c.) and how the printing process itself screwed with Black skin tones as well as how there was no (or minimal/uncommon) effort put in by creatives and publishers to correct for that.
"4 Colorism, or, the Ashiness of it All" by Zoe D. Smith
Part 1: https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2019/05/4-colorism-or-the-ashiness-of-it-all/
Part 2: https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2019/05/4-colorism-or-white-paper-brown-pixels/
Zoe D. Smith looks at the printing process for comics in the 1960s and 70s and how that affected portrayals of black characters in Marvel an
Zoe D. Smith looks at the printing process for comics in the 1960s and 70s and how that affected portrayals of black characters in Marvel an
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