Grevioux says he first had the idea for the character as a child, when he realized that “in the panoply of powerful superheroes out there like Thor, Superman and Shazam!, there was never really a comparable black superhero who was both iconic and could vie with them on that upper-echelon physical level. And I always wondered, if there was, how would this black superhero be perceived?” “Would he be hailed as a hero, or would he be an object of fear, given a lot of misconceptions about blacks throughout our history in this country? All I had to do is give the story a historical context in pre-civil rights America.
— Splash Page » ‘Underworld’ Screenwriter Kevin Grevioux Tackles Racism in ‘Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel’
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