![]() (Long story.) Calling herself Binary, Danvers suddenly had red skin and a head that looked like a star constantly going nova. ![]() ![]() Eventually she ran off into space with the X-Men and started drawing stellar powers from a white hole. It was essentially a black one-piece swimsuit with a yellow lightning symbol, plus a black mask, thigh-high boots and a red sash – a colorful, well-designed uniform that, if nothing else, protected her midriff.īut the changes didn’t stop there. Yes, that’s just the sort of thing women want to wear into combat.īut she eventually came up with a unique outfit that fans still remember fondly. And she wore a horrible version of his costume that, for some reason, exposed her belly button. Marvel – a name she took because she thought she was somehow connected to Mar-Vell, who was still using “Captain Marvel” at the time. Copyright Marvel Entertainment Inc.Ĭaptain Marvel #1 (1977) had plenty of navel engagement.Īs a character that hasn’t been particularly successful sales-wise (until recently, anyway), Carol Danvers has been subject to a lot of tinkering over the years to find a winning formula. Since Mar-Vell has been dead for decades, we can now pretend that Danvers is the most important Captain Marvel there has ever been – if not the first.Īrt by John Romita Sr. Marvel righted that ship last year, by revealing that Danvers’ mother was a Kree, Carol’s powers are inborn and her birth name is, believe it or not, Car-Ell. She took a variation on his name, and even dressed like him. Which made her, unfortunately, little more than a distaff spinoff to a male character, instead of an independent character in her own right. Not right away – they emerged in 1977, in Ms. In the process, though, Danvers was exposed to a device called the Psyche-Magnitron, which gave her Captain Marvel’s super-powers. “Somehow I can’t help feeling,” she thought, “that Walter Lawson is hiding something! If he is, I won’t rest until I know what – and why!” And true to her word, she dogged Mar-Vell’s civilian identity until he abandoned it, the missile base, and Earth itself a few years later. A hard-nosed military officer, she was on to Lawson/Mar-Vell from the start. Despite the year, she was no delicate flower. Here are five:Ĭarol Danvers was introduced by her commander in 1967 as “the finest head of security a missile base could want!” This was said to a robotics and missile expert named Walter Lawson – who was secretly Captain Mar-Vell of the Kree, Marvel’s first Captain Marvel, who initially came to Earth as a spy before changing teams.ĭanvers was definitely ahead of her time. Audiences will be rewarded with a lot of really cool stuff from Carol Danvers’ long history, including the Starforce, the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree, arch-enemy Minn-Erva and even a glancing take on one of Marvel’s most famous storylines, the Kree-Skrull War.īut there’s a lot of things from the character’s storied history that you won’t see – because they are, for the most part, really stupid. Ma- Captain Marvel is heading “higher, further, faster” with a record-setting opening weekend. Posted by Captain Comics on Maat 12:07am in Captain Comics
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