For a superhero to leave a lasting impact, it has to be a product of solid graphic design. All too often, we dwell mainly on the writers who develop the names and backstories of our favorite long-underwear characters, thus ignoring the profound importance that comic-book artists have on making a character succeed. Joe Shuster decides Superman should have a cape, and countless millions of children wrap towels around their shoulders. Steve Ditko opts to give Spider-Man oddly shaped eyes, and his mask becomes a Halloween best seller for five decades.

And when Jack Kirby laid out the simple black spandex and barely noticeable feline ears of T’Challa — better known as Black Panther — yet another icon was born. Other artists followed in his footsteps and gradually built a visual encyclopedia of Black Panther supporting characters, and now, well over a dozen of them are making the leap to the big screen. With Black Panther on the way, we’ve decided to show how far the king of Wakanda and his cohort have come by comparing their first visual iterations to the actors playing them in the film.

Ayo (Florence Kasumba)

Of all the characters in Black Panther, Ayo is the newest. Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and artist Brian Stelfreeze conceived of her for the pages of their run with T’Challa but, oddly enough, she first appeared in an issue of a comic called Ultimates a few weeks prior to the beginning of that run. Therefore, online outlets mistakenly attribute her creation to Ultimates team Al Ewing and Kenneth Rocafort, who are both terrific, but not the ones who designed this top-flight member of the Dora Milaje. We’ve broken our rules slightly by not using an image from her very first appearance, but rather the first time she shows up at the pen of her visual creator.

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