It's pretty blatant nowadays but back then you have actual artists and writers that hated that their hobby was overwhelmingly populated by white dudes and would go out of their way to show it without explicitly saying it. The hobby was pretty much infiltrated at that point, it just needed to create the fandom next which didn't really come about until the 2010s.

>>713056903
Actually true in white countries. It hasn't been a closely held secret for some time now as to why Regdar was always dying or seriously hurt in promo art.