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Well, George Perez did introduce us to Black Amazons, and I believe Asians too.

Then again, I didn't think Amazons were Greek, just part of Greek mythology.

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You future in Hollywood is assured.

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There is a degree of illogic to your thought processes that goes a long way to explaining why Hollywood thinks the way it does. If you allow A, why not B? In fact, how could you have ANY problem with B (and C, and D, and E...) if you allow A?

In Hollywood, doors are closed, or they are wide open. Nothing in between.

Lee and Kirby, both New York Jews, did not "cast" the Fantastic Four as extensions of themselves. It took fifty years for a writer (and I wish it had been me!) to identify Ben Grimm as Jewish. But what Stan and Jack did when shaping the early Marvel Universe was demonstrate a social conscience in the best ways the Nation at the time would tolerate. And let us not forget, it was Stan and Jack who desegregated the American Armed Forces almost a decade before it happened in real life.

Lee, Kirby, Ditko and the rest introduced ethnic and racial minorities with a far greater frequency than, say, DC. Wyatt Wingfoot became a regular member of the FF's supporting cast. Robbie Robertson showed up in Spider-Man. The Black Panther arrived. Heroic non-White figures arose from the ranks of the common man. Remember Al B. Harper, who died to save the world?

When Johnny is race-swapped the inevitable response from some segments of fandom and the media is that this is "necessary" due to comics in the 1960s being hotbeds of White supremacy -- while nothing is further from the truth. American comics had long been the home to some of the most liberal, forward thinking people you were likely to meet. They cannot be taken to task for portraying society as that society perceived itself. But they should definitely be lauded for being, often, ahead of the curve when it came to social reform.