Black Kirby, “Black Panther,” GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning - Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, accessed September 26, 2022, https://glamportal.auctr.edu/items/show/2779.
The Black Panther was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in July of 1966 in Fantastic Four 52 during the Silver Age era of comicbooks . Black Panther is the first superhero of African descent in a mainstream American comic book.
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Fantastic Four Vo1. 1 Issue 52. Marvel Comics Group, New York, NY, 1966.
Source: Marvel Wikia