Captain Marvel is one of the most famous figures in the Marvel comics and now she will make her big screen debut!
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the comic book hero and her legacy!
- Carol Danvers is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books
- Her comics are published by Marvel Comics
- She was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan
- Danvers first appeared as an officer in the United States Air Force
- And a colleague of the Kree superhero Mar- Vell in Marvel Super-Heroes #13
- Danvers later became the first incarnation of Ms. Marvel in Ms. Marvel #1
- After her DNA was fused with Mar- Vell’s during an explosion
- Giving her superhuman powers
- Debuting in the Silver Age of comics, the character was featured in a self-titled series in the late 1970s
- Before becoming associated with the superhero teams the Avengers and the X-Men
- The character has also been known as Binary, Warbird and Captain Marvel
- At various points in her history
- She has been labeled “Marvel’s biggest female hero”
- And “quite possibly Marvel’s mightiest Avenger”
- In 2012, Danvers’ incarnation of Ms Marvel was the highest ranked female character on IGN’s list of the “Top 50 Avengers.”
- Danvers has been featured in other Marvel licensed products
- Including video games, animated television series, and merchandise such as trading cards
- On March 8, 2019, Marvel Studios is scheduled to release a live-action film featuring Danvers
- It is titled Captain Marvel
- Starring Brie Larson
- Larson is also scheduled to reprise the role in Avengers: Endgame
- Carol Danvers initially possessed superhuman strength, endurance, stamina, physical durability, a limited precognitive “seventh sense” and a perfectly amalgamated human/Kree physiology that rendered her resistant to most toxins and poisons
- As Binary, the character could tap the energy of a “white hole”, allowing full control and manipulation of stellar energies, and therefore control over heat, the electromagnetic spectrum and gravity
- Light speed travel and the ability to survive in the vacuum of space were also possible
- She originally only had the power of flight thanks to a contraption under her suit
- Although the link to the white hole was eventually severed
- Danvers retains her Binary powers on a smaller scale
- Enabling her to both absorb energy and project it in photonic form
- She can also still survive in space
- While she lacks a constant source of energy to maintain the abilities at their previous cosmic level
- She can temporarily assume her Binary form if empowered with a high enough infusion of energy
- Danvers possesses superhuman strength and durability
- She can fly at roughly six times the speed of sound
- She retains her “seventh sense”
- And can discharge explosive blasts of radiant energy
- Which she fires from her fingertips
- She also demonstrates the ability to absorb other forms of energy, such as electricity
- To further magnify her strength and energy projection, up to the force of an exploding nuclear weapon
- When sufficiently augmented, she can withstand the pressure from a ninety-two-ton weight
- And strike with a similar level of force
- Although Hank Pym theorized that this likely was not her limit
- Danvers cannot absorb magical energy without consequence
- Though she aided Dr. Stephen Strange in the defeat of the mystic menace, Sir Warren Traveler
- In July 2012, Carol Danvers assumed the mantle of Captain Marvel in an ongoing series
- Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by Dexter Soy
- Danvers dons a jumpsuit and explores her own past
- She said the series would contemplate what Captain Marvel’s legend means to Danvers
- How she will wield it
- And how the rest of the Marvel Universe reacts
- Danvers also rejoined the main Avengers team as Captain Marvel in vol. 5 of The Avengers
- And in the spin-off series, Avengers Assemble, also written by DeConnick
- Editor Lauren Sankovitch said that Marvel editors liked DeConnick’s work and that adding her to the team would “get some lady power in the Avengers lineup”
- DeConnick said, “You might know this — I have a certain affection”
- Danvers is scheduled to star in the tenth volume of Captain Marvel written by Thompson and drawn by Carmen Carnero
- The story sees Danvers return to New York City after a stint in space and reconnect with allies and friends like Iron Man and Spider-Woman
- As well as explore new relationships
- She is listed #29 in Comics Buyer’s Guide’s “100 Sexiest Women in Comics”
- She had made numerous appearences on tv shows
- And video games
- Captain Marvel is estimated to open with $125 million in the US and over $300 million around the world
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