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  • Iron ManIron Man, the armored Marvel Comics hero, first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39, released in December 1962 with a March 1963 cover date. His creator, Stan Lee, had set himself an awkward assignment during the Vietnam War. His readers…
  • Wolverine (character)Wolverine, the Marvel Comics superhero, shares his everyday name with a mountain. Writer Chris Claremont took the name Logan from Canada's Mount Logan for an issue of X-Men in 1977. He liked the idea of the tallest mountain naming the…
  • Captain AmericaCaptain America Comics #1 reached newsstands on the 20th of December 1940, carrying a cover date of March 1941. Its cover showed the hero punching Adolf Hitler. That hero, Captain America, was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Timely…
  • Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)Spider-Woman, the Marvel Comics heroine whose civilian name is Jessica Drew, began as a legal precaution. In 1978, Marvel's publisher Stan Lee explained that he feared a rival company might publish its own book called Spider-Woman and then…
  • Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)Black Widow, whose full name is Natalia Alianovna Romanova, first appeared in 1964 as a Soviet spy sent to seduce Tony Stark. Editor Stan Lee, scripter Don Rico and artist Don Heck created her for Tales of Suspense #52. On that first page…
  • Kitty PrydeKitty Pryde is a Marvel Comics mutant who can pass through solid walls, and she owes her name to a real person. In 1973, an art student at Canada's Alberta College of Art and Design met a classmate named Kitty Pryde. His name was John…
  • Miles MoralesMiles Morales makes his first public appearance as Spider-Man by stopping an assault by a villain called Kangaroo. The bystanders are not impressed. They tell him his Spider-Man costume is in bad taste, and he considers changing it. That…
  • She-HulkShe-Hulk first appeared in November 1979, in the first issue of The Savage She-Hulk from Marvel Comics. Her name is Jennifer Susan Walters, and she is a lawyer. When she changes, her skin turns green and her body grows enormous. Even so,…
  • Silk (character)Silk, the Marvel Comics superhero whose civilian name is Cindy Moon, first appeared in April 2014 without a face. She showed up as a faceless cameo in The Amazing Spider-Man #1, created by writer Dan Slott and artist Humberto Ramos.…
  • Yelena BelovaYelena Belova, a Marvel Comics assassin, started life as a sketch in a sketchbook. The drawing ran in Marvel Knights: Wave 2 Sketchbook #1 in January 1998, a full year before she appeared in an actual story. She was trained in a Russian…
  • Sentry (Robert Reynolds)Robert Reynolds, a middle-aged man better known to Marvel Comics readers as the Sentry, carries the power of one million exploding suns, and almost nobody on Earth remembers him. Reynolds knows his enemy, the Void, is coming back. He also…

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