User blog comment:Nausiated/1950 - Basically Done/@comment-1895174-20121107203634/@comment-61022-20121108161749

Well when they did Apache Skies in the 2000s they retconned Apache Kid to be half white half Apache, so at least they kind of made up for it.

But again it was the sign of the times for the most part. We're talking about pre-civil rights era comics, so white characters were always the hero, always the best, and any heroic ethnic character were always sidekicks for the most part.

It's interesting to point out that Marvel didn't really have an predominant black characters until the 60's, starting with Bill Foster and Joe Robertson.