Reporter and writer David Betancourt looks at the history and biographies of Marvel fan favorites in “The Avengers Assembled: The Origin Story of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.”
WASHINGTON — Imagine being a lifelong, self-described huge fan of superheroes and comic books and then getting a chance to write a book about them. For Afro Latino writer and journalist David Betancourt, it was a dream come true — and it all started on a Zoom call.
which takes a deep dive into the biographies and histories of “the greatest superhero team of all time,” including fan favorites such as Vision and Black Widow. The book was published by DK Publishing.“There’s 60 years of comics materials, not even counting the movies. We had to think what era we were going to be focusing on because the team is constantly evolving," he said.
Convincing his mother was another story. “I come from an era where some parents didn’t want their kids reading comics; they wanted them to read ‘real’ books. She would get mad when I would come home with comic books and would tell my dad and uncles to stop giving them to me. Clearly I’ve made a believer out of her,” Betancourt said.
"I’m living proof that editorial decisions like that have an impact," Betancourt said, referring to the creation of Miles Morales and the recent"I am 100% someone who was impacted when Marvel decided that they needed to make superheroes reflect a little bit more the diversity of this country and the world," he said.
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