Framed newspaper article owned my Dwayne McDuffie: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Framed newspaper article owned my Dwayne McDuffie. The article comes from the Sept. 8, 1992 edition of the Washington Post is entitled [Zap! Pow! Superheroes of Distinction / Milestone Media Gets DC Comics to Distribute Its Multicultural Message]. A large image accompanies the article. The image shows Michael Davis, Derek T. Dingle, Denys Cowan and Dwayne McDuffie standing and sitting around an artist’s desk.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: Sept. 8, 1992
• Published by: The Washington Post, American, founded 1877
• Written by: Michelle Singletary, American
• Photograph by: Helayne Seidman, American
• Owned by: Dwayne McDuffie, American, 1962 - 2011
• Subject of: Derek T. Dingle, American
• Subject of: Dwayne McDuffie, American, 1962 - 2011
• Subject of: Denys Cowan, American, born 1961
• Subject of: Michael Davis, American, born 1958
• Type: newspapers
• Type: articles
• Medium: ink on paper, wood, glass
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 17 × 15 × 1 1/4 in. (43.2 × 38.1 × 3.2 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Black Enterprise
• Topic: Journalism
• Topic: Mass media
• Object number: 2019.96.22
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charlotte (Fullerton) McDuffie
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © The Washington Post Company Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.