Black Adam
DC2022
Black Adam (2022)
Ancient champion Teth-Adam awakens and violently challenges foreign control of Kahndaq. Its comic connection is a synthesis: familiar characters and ideas are combined into a new cinematic story.
- Director
- Jaume Collet-Serra
- Produced by
- Beau Flynn, Hiram Garcia, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia
- Starring
- Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi
From screen to page
Shop related comicsComics behind the movie
Black Adam combines ideas from more than one period of the comics, so its source material is better read as a group than as one direct adaptation. Start with The Marvel Family #1, then compare it with JSA #21–25 and 52 #1–52. The additional references below broaden that trail into the characters, continuity and ideas surrounding the film.
Connection: Modern antihero/Kahndaq synthesis
