Also, McGregor stuff was far better then the stuff from the Avengers. McGregor stuff is from the 70's, it's rare. Most will not ever read his stuff, and Priest said he based his Panther off of McGregor's. When he was with the Avengers, is what killed the character.
I read the McGregor stuff.
He got tied to a burning cross, he got thrown off of cliffs, he got attacked by dogs,
thrown in barbed wire and had a burning auto tire full of gas chucked at him.
By regular folk.
I have NEVER SEEN a character get his A$$ kicked more in his own book than the McGregor Black Panther.
I guess I always took the McGregor stuff with a grain of salt. The barbed wire and burning tire scenario in Panther's Quest took place less than a month after he actually became the Panther and chalked a lot of it up to real life injuries building up. I mean, the barbed wire would be enough to put anyone down, but then he basically sucks down tear gas after saving a kid, gets shot because of said tear gas, tears his leg up in a roof, stuck in a bear trap, etc. After a while, it doesn't matter who you are, that sh!t's gonna slow you down.
I looked at that stuff and times from rest of McGregor's run as something removed from the Marvel Universe, as if this was a real-life human being (with 1970s strength, speed, etc. standards, of course) so I could believe that the possibility of him getting whooped sometimes.