Closet cosplay entails using clothes and accessories you already own or have access to, negating the need to go out and buy often prohibitively expensive wigs, clothing, accessories or anything else.

Portia Lewis wears a Black Panther-inspired costume in the courtyard of her apartment complex in Los Angeles, Jan. 30, 2018.

She said she started with Dollar Store wigs and homemade costumes and eventually embedded herself into the cosplay world by going to anime conventions like Detroit's Youmacon or Motor City Black Age.

Cosplayer Lady Jaded loves Black Cat, so she set up a whole photoshoot just for this costume. Australian cosplayer Lady Jaded started a cosplay page on Facebook back in 2013.

These "cosplay medics" make up a small but unique sliver of the cosplay community, which showed up in force at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. The event, which draws more than 135,000 people to ...

T'Challa commands attention. The character certainly inspired Andrien Gbinigie. He put together his first ever costume in October 2017 because of Black Panther. He told Nerdist, "I chose B ...

Black cosplayers have historically had a difficult time finding footing in the cosplay scene. Some black players told Kotaku in 2016 that they struggle with self-doubt at conventions, to the point ...

Andrien Gbinigie's Black Panther costume received overwhelmingly positive support when he debuted it shortly after the release of the 2016 Marvel film. But soon after, his costume of Superman ...