Interestingly, this is actually an alternate take on the origins of the Black Panther, told in recent stories over the last couple of years. The first Black Panther was named Mosi, and he was the first Wakandan to discover and harness the power of Vibranium, joining up with characters such as Thor's father Odin Aggamotto, the original Sorcerer Supreme Firehair, the first human host of the Phoenix Force the first bearer of the Iron Fist and more ancient legacies of modern Marvel heroes to form the Stone-Age Avengers (also called the Avengers 1,000,000 BC). In Marvel Universe in-story terms, the name 'Black Panther' goes back much, much farther than that, to the founding of the 'Panther Tribe' which would eventually form Wakanda around the year 1,000,000 BCE (yes, the Marvel Universe has a very different anthropological history from the real world, where humans began developing language and societies around 50,000 years ago). The coincidence came to a head in the early '70s when the character's name was very briefly changed to 'Black Leopard' to avoid the connotation of a connection between the character and the group but was quickly changed back.
Oddly enough, the character's name also predates the founding of the Black Panther party, a pro-Black political organization that was most prominent in the '60s and '70s, by a few months. Sensing Khanata's plight, T'Challa rushes back into action but can only track him as far as a solid mountainside at the border.(Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab)
He's been having prophetic dreams of Kiber's soldiers and tests confirm that his exposure to the raw vibranium has left him with minor ESP abilities. Meanwhile, T'Challa is in the hospital recovering from being buried under the collapsed vibranium mound. Khanata is dropped into a holding cell with several other hopeless captives, and he's forced to witness as one of them is led to a machine that converts him to pure energy to feed Kiber's hunger.
Khanata tries to resist his captor, but Kiber proves untouchable, employing mysterious powers to teleport and make parts of his body vanish. While driving around near the Wakandan border, Khanata is abducted by agents of Kiber the Cruel. Jack Kirby Appearing in "Kiber the Cruel"
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