The Luke Cage TV show gives credit to the character's original creators. Archie Goodwin, George Tuska, Roy Thomas and John Romita.

Except… they appear to be missing one. Billy Graham.



Not the evangelical preacher, but the comic book artist. He inked the first issue of Luke Cage, Hero for Hire and either inked or pencilled every issue of the series' 16 issue initial run, wrote and co-wrote a number of issues as well and drew the first of the retitled Luke Cage, Power Man.

He was also principal in co-creating a number of the characters who have appeared in the Luke Cage TV show, including Black Mariah. Not for nothing, but he was also the only black man on the creative team. Given the level of his contribution to the gritty appeal of the comic, as well has having a hand in its writing, pencilling and inking, it seems odd for him to be the missing name from the Netflix credits. His last comics work was penciling, Power Man and Iron Fist in the mid eighties, and he died in 1999.

Missing credits is a common thing in comics-to-other-media adaptation. The difference with a Netflix show is that it could, conceivably, be altered with the flick of a graphic designer's pen.