2) STORM (1975)
As one of the All-New All-Different X-Men, Ororo Munroe and her fellow mutants were specifically created to represent different countries and regions of the world. Though not the first black female hero ever created, she is still among the earliest such portrayals, and is to the best of my knowledge, Storm is the first black female super-team leader, having taken over command of the X-Men from Cyclops in the 80s. She even survived a number of ideas that should have destroyed her character, such as when the creators jokingly decided to mode her after Mr. T or when an entire back story of life-long romance with The Black Panther was hamfistedly crazy-glued into her past.
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I’d like to put an honorable mention for Nubia, the black Wonder Woman, who appeared in Wonder Woman comics in the early 1970s.
While Nubia may not be the first black female superhero, she was the first to have a Mego doll made of her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NmsbnVvWuM
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Mal Duncan (1970), aka Hornblower, aka Guardian, aka Herald, aka Vox, of the Teen Titans deserves an honorable mention.