Butterfly is the first black female superhero—but don't ignore Torchy Brown, Mummy Begum, Merciless, or Bubbles the Dew Dilly

The Golden Age of comics had a few superheroes of color, but none that I've found are black and female. The first female black superhero appears in Hell-Rider Magazine in 1971: Outfitted with a jetpack for flying and a costume laden with incredibly bright strobe lights to blind her enemies, Marian Michaels is a Las Vegas cabaret singer by night and the crime-fighting Butterfly by even later