Luke Cage was featured as the title character of a creative work.
Luke Cage . He was the first black superhero to be featured as the protagonist and title character of a comic book . In 2005 , writer Brian Michael Bendis added Luke Cage to the lineup of the New Avengers , and he has since appeared in various Avengers titles , and became the leader of a group of reformed supervillains called the Thunderbolts . Actor Mike Colter played the character in the first season of Jessica Jones , a live-action television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , and headlined his own series , which premiered in September 2016 on Netflix .