Tony Isabella

Tony Isabella is a comic book writer best known for creating Black Lightning, one of DC Comics first black superheroes.

When development of season 2 of the Superfriends was in preproduction, Hanna-Barbera was interested in using Black Lightning, but they decided not to, since they would have ended up paying Tony Isabella royalties to use the character in the show.

They ultimately ended up creating a brand new character who was very similar to Black Lightning, which was Black Vulcan, who first appeared in The Whirlpool (1977).

The character was dropped for season 9, and replaced with another black superhero that actually was a DC Comics character from the Teen Titans comics. This was Cyborg, who was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez.

External Link

 * Tony Isabella at the DC Database
 * Tony Isabella at Wikipedia