Philadelphia Front Page News TV-Radio News In Brief: Chestnut Hill shop displays original Sun-Man action figure, a hero to Black kids and a case study for multicultural marketing Forward news by KYW Newsradio frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A bookstore and comics shop in Chestnut Hill has on display a 40-year-old action figure on loan from the Philly Doll Museum collection. The figurine will be there through Black History Month and beyond.
Sun-Man was born in 1985 after marketing and communications expert Yla Eason learned there were no Black superhero figures. She created Sun-Man and founded Olmec Toys. Now the company is a case study for business school classes teaching multicultural marketing.
“It was created in response to a comment her son had made, about feeling like he couldn’t pretend to be He-Man because he wasn’t white,” said Gralin Hughes, co-owner of Multiverse, a Chestnut Hill bookstore with a focus on science fiction, fantasy and comic books by artists of color.
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