Issue(s): Power Man #24
Published Date: Apr 75
Title: "Among us walks... Black Goliath!"
Credits:
Tony Isabella - Writer
George Tuska - Penciler
David Hunt - Inker

Review/plot:
If it's the Marvel Universe and there's a circus involved, who's gonna show up? The answer is in the review.

Luke Cage and D.W. Griffith track down Luke's girlfriend Claire Temple, who recently left him a letter breaking up with him and then left the city. They find her in a circus in Southern California. It turns out that she is Bill Foster's ex-wife, and he's been messing with Pym particles and got himself stuck at 15 feet. Too proud to ask Stark or Pym for help, he's joined the circus to raise money to continue his research. Claire is afraid that, due to Foster's connection with the Avengers, he'd learn that Luke is an escaped convict, so she didn't bring him along. She's also not sure if their relationship is really over.

Luke and Foster (who is not called Black Goliath anywhere except in the title) get into a fight. Luke generally has the upper hand the whole time, but the fight is cut short when - did you guess? - the Ringmaster shows up.

Meanwhile, a reporter comes around asking questions about Luke Cage to Dr. Bernstein. Bernstein sends him away, but wonders why the reporter reminds him of Phil Fox, "the corrupt reporter who almost exposed Luke Cage's secret past".

From the editorial box on the Letters Page: "The costume design for the new Goliath was the work of a promising young Canadian artist named John Byrne, whose drawings have graced FOOM Magazine and many other fanzines, and who has recently penciled a story for The Haunt of Horror - an artist to watch."

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 4 - first Bill Foster as Black Goliath

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• The Gambonno brothers refer to their recent battle with Daredevil and "The Princess' clash with the Nomad", but no footnote provides references. The Gambonnos fought Daredevil in Daredevil #118, and Princess Python, as a member of the Serpent Squad, fought Nomad in Captain America #180-181
  
• The subplot of Claire leaving Luke was developed in Power Man #20, Power Man #21, and Power Man #22.
  
• Bill Foster first appeared in Avengers #52

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: N/A