Captain Marvel started out as a male, silver-blonde, albeit alien superhero. But Marvel has a storied history of creating female versions of their characters for trademark purposes. Aside from Wonder ...

The world of comics is populated by many thousands of characters, whose stories have been explored over the industry's nine-decade history. From pre-superhero pulp protagonists to modern-day icons ...

Thor, the macho thunder god who has been a Marvel Comics headliner for more than half a century and was portrayed by brawny actor Chris Hemsworth in several blockbuster movies, is now a thunder ...

Who came first is easy enough to establish. DC’s Captain Marvel first appeared in “Whiz Comics” No. 2 in 1939 (with a 1940 cover date) just a year after the debut of Superman.

In the last two years, Marvel Comics, led by editor in chief Axel Alonso, has been earning new fans—and boosting its bottom line—by diversifying its comic books. Marvel went from publishing ...

Carol Danvers initially appeared as a love interest, not the titular hero, in 1968’s “Captain Marvel” series. The original superhero was a male alien named Mar-Vell who posed undercover on ...

Wil Moss, Marvel Comics editor of the upcoming Thor series: We can’t give away all the story details now obviously, but once the story is out there, it becomes clear why there’s a new female Thor.

Marvel Comics first began publishing in 1939, and they were quickly off to the races. However, out of the first ten superheroes they created, only one was a woman. Jump forward to 20 heroes total ...

Introduced in 1968’s “Marvel Super-Heroes” No. 13 by Roy Thomas and Gene Colan, Carol was a NASA security chief keeping watch over an alien robot when she meets Dr. Walter Lawson – the ...

Marvel Comics' current Alien series has seen writer Declan Shalvey and artist Andrea Broccardo unearth terrifying new truths about the legendary Xenomorph species. Set on an icy moon in the black ...

Marvel Comics' "Alien #1" lands on April 26, 2023 accompanied by an icy main cover from artist Dike Ruan and chilly variants by Declan Shalvey and Gabriele Dell'Otto.