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Ms. Marvel (1977) #1-23
Captain Marvel: Ms. Marvel - A Hero is Born Omnibus
When NASA Security Chief Carol Danvers' genetic structure was melded with alien Kree DNA, Danvers was imbued with amazing powers - and an all-new Marvel hero was born! But before she became Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers was Ms. Marvel - with X-Men writer Chris Claremont weaving together complex plots and compelling characterization to craft her iconic original adventures! Witness Carol's first meeting with the Avengers! The debuts of Mystique and Rogue! Battles with Ronan the Accuser, Sabretooth and the Guardians of the Galaxy! And Carol's story reaches its epic conclusion in a Marvel milestone guest-starring the X-Men and the Avengers! Collecting MS. MARVEL (1977) #1-23, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #61-62 and #76-77, DEFENDERS (1972) #57, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (1974) #51, AVENGERS (1963) #200 and ANNUAL #10, and material from AVENGERS (1963) #197-199, MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1990) #10-11 and MARVEL FANFARE (1982) #24.
720 pages, Hardcover
Published February 12, 2019
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Amanda Conner
385 books308 followersAmanda Conner started out in comics working small projects for Marvel and Archie while working as an illustrator for New York ad agencies Kornhauser and Calene and Kidvertisers. working a number of launches and campaigns such as Arm & Hammer, PlaySchool and Nickelodeon.
However, loving comic books and cartooning the most, Amanda found herself working for Marvel on their Barbie line (much of Amanda’s covers inspired designs for the line of Barbie toys), Disney line which included the Gargoyles books. At the same time she was illustrating “Soul Searchers & Co.” for Claypool Comics and worked on other Marvel projects, such as Excalibur for the X-Men line and “Suburban Jersey Ninja She-Devils”.
During an assignment for Crusade (‘Tomoe’) she and Jimmy Palmiotti became a real team as penciller/inker.
Amanda then moved on to do what is probably one of her best known works. She did several years as penciller on the hit series “Vampirella” for Harris Comics and drafted 24 issues. While illustrating “Vampirella”, Amanda worked with the top writers in the field, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Warren Ellis.
Continuing to expand her horizons, Amanda illustrated the best-selling crossover “Painkiller Jane vs. the Darkness”, and went on to work on “Painkiller Jane” #0 (the origin book). She also wrote and illustrated a story for “Kid Death and Fluffy”.
Since then, Amanda has worked on many of the top titles in comics such as “Lois Lane”, “Codename: Knockout”, and “Birds of Prey” for D.C. Comics Vertigo line, “X-Men Unlimited” for Marvel, co-created “Gatecrasher” for Blackbull Comics, and “The Pro”, an Eisner nominated creator owned book for Image Comics with Jimmy Palmiotti and Garth Ennis. Recently she worked on the highly publicized Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre series with Eisner winning creator Darwyn Cooke.
Amanda’s work can also be seen outside the comic book community in such places as ABC’S Nightline, the New York Times, Mad Magazine, the new sci-fi Stan lee “So You Want to be a Superhero” series and the upcoming Disney Underdog movie character designs for film and television, character designs for the Los Angeles Avengers stadium football team and is featured in a Biography magazine commercial on A&E. Amanda does spot illustrations in “Revolver” magazine each month and has had a huge success with the JSA Powergirl miniseries in previous years, each issue going into 3rd printings.
She continuously produces cover work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and an assortment of independent titles.
With PaperFilms co-founder Jimmy Palmiotti, they are currently working on the highly received Harley Quinn series and other Harley Quinn related titles for DC Comics, in addition to several upcoming DC related projects. Garnering national attention and sales results, the team continues to receive accolades for their work on these titles. The new relaunch of Harley Quinn for DC in the Rebirth line garnered an estimated 250,000 copies ordered.
However, loving comic books and cartooning the most, Amanda found herself working for Marvel on their Barbie line (much of Amanda’s covers inspired designs for the line of Barbie toys), Disney line which included the Gargoyles books. At the same time she was illustrating “Soul Searchers & Co.” for Claypool Comics and worked on other Marvel projects, such as Excalibur for the X-Men line and “Suburban Jersey Ninja She-Devils”.
During an assignment for Crusade (‘Tomoe’) she and Jimmy Palmiotti became a real team as penciller/inker.
Amanda then moved on to do what is probably one of her best known works. She did several years as penciller on the hit series “Vampirella” for Harris Comics and drafted 24 issues. While illustrating “Vampirella”, Amanda worked with the top writers in the field, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Warren Ellis.
Continuing to expand her horizons, Amanda illustrated the best-selling crossover “Painkiller Jane vs. the Darkness”, and went on to work on “Painkiller Jane” #0 (the origin book). She also wrote and illustrated a story for “Kid Death and Fluffy”.
Since then, Amanda has worked on many of the top titles in comics such as “Lois Lane”, “Codename: Knockout”, and “Birds of Prey” for D.C. Comics Vertigo line, “X-Men Unlimited” for Marvel, co-created “Gatecrasher” for Blackbull Comics, and “The Pro”, an Eisner nominated creator owned book for Image Comics with Jimmy Palmiotti and Garth Ennis. Recently she worked on the highly publicized Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre series with Eisner winning creator Darwyn Cooke.
Amanda’s work can also be seen outside the comic book community in such places as ABC’S Nightline, the New York Times, Mad Magazine, the new sci-fi Stan lee “So You Want to be a Superhero” series and the upcoming Disney Underdog movie character designs for film and television, character designs for the Los Angeles Avengers stadium football team and is featured in a Biography magazine commercial on A&E. Amanda does spot illustrations in “Revolver” magazine each month and has had a huge success with the JSA Powergirl miniseries in previous years, each issue going into 3rd printings.
She continuously produces cover work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and an assortment of independent titles.
With PaperFilms co-founder Jimmy Palmiotti, they are currently working on the highly received Harley Quinn series and other Harley Quinn related titles for DC Comics, in addition to several upcoming DC related projects. Garnering national attention and sales results, the team continues to receive accolades for their work on these titles. The new relaunch of Harley Quinn for DC in the Rebirth line garnered an estimated 250,000 copies ordered.
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August 14, 2023
3.75 stars. This book ended up being better than I expected. Claremont took up Carol Danvers and handled her with great care. I feel like he really liked writing her with how he went into this book and how he had her really involved with his X-Men. Book starts off with her dealing with some amnesia, blacking out and not remembering being Ms Marvel when she changed back to Carol and vice versa. I see now that this is where the got the idea for the first Captain Marvel movie as she was dealing with not remembering what happened to her over there as well. Pretty cool. Loved how Carol was out here kicking ass all through this book while onlookers were shocked at seeing a woman wrecking shop. Throughout her adventures, she took on a variety of villains. Super Skrull, MODOK and AIM, Tiger Shark, and making an arch nemesis out of Deathbird as they fought all through this book. Plus towards the end, dealing with trying to track down Mystique and of course in the end getting taken down by Rogue in the tragic Avengers annual 10. However, that Avengers issue 200 was weird as hell. I wonder what that conversation was like as they came up with that bizarre thread. But over all a solid omnibus with some pretty nice art from the likes of both Buscemas, Byrne, Cockrum, Perez, Mooney and Vosburg to name a few.
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March 9, 20191977: Mit der Figur Ms. Marvel reagiert Marvel auf die feministischen Zeitströmungen und schafft eine Heldin, über die Autor Chris Claremont (nachdem er einräumt, dass Mavels Frauen zuvor oft Stereotypen sind) auf der Leserbrief-Seite von Heft 4 schreibt:
"Which is what Ms. Marvel is all about: taking a woman, giving her super-powers - and then treating that super-person with the same intelligence and respect that I would Spider-Man or the FF."
Tatsächlich waren die Leserbriefseiten von großer Bedeutung, weil Marvel Leser nicht nur zu Wort kommen ließ, sondern ihre Beiträge auch ernst nahm. So strickten Leser bis zu einem gewissen Grad an der Entwicklung von Figuren und Plots mit. Ms. Marvel als feministische Heldin - das wird nicht nur aktuell anlässlich des neuen Kinofilms 2019 diskutiert und gefeiert, es war schon zu Beginn der Heftreihe auf der Briefseite mit dem schönen Namen MS. PRINTS Thema. Die Leser und Leserinnen waren bereit und wollten eine Heldin, die endlich für Frauenpower stand und nicht nur gut aussehende Staffage und gelegentliche Damsel in Distress war (und damals wie heute war der Konkurrent DC mit WONDER WOMAN seiner Zeit und Konkurrenz voraus).
Warum Ms. Marvel diesen hinderlichen roten Schal trägt, an dem schon in Heft 4 ein Riesen=Roboter sie mehrfach festhalten und herumschleudern kann, bleibt ihr Geheimnis - geht Mode etwa doch vor Erkenntnis? Der Schal ist jedenfalls bis heute ihr Markenzeichen, wenn er sich auch zeitweise zur Schärpe wandelte.
Überhaupt sind die Kostüme der Heldinnen immer sehr speziell (=sexy und absolut unpraktisch, wenn man gerade mal wieder die Welt retten muß) und werfen Fragen auf, zum Beispiel die, welcher Teil ihres Kostüms wohl Ms. Marvel mit einer Atmosphäre versorgt:
Vielleicht liegt hier das Geheimnis des roten Schals verborgen?
(Achtung, Nerd=Wissen: 2012, als Kelly Sue DeConnick die Serie übernimmt und ihr zu großem Erfolg verhilft, überwältigt Ms. Marvel den Absorbing Man ("Ich glaube, ich kenne dein Problem, Absorbing Man. Du bist enttäuscht, weil dein Name wie ´ne Klopapier-Marke klingt") gleich in Heft 1 mit Hilfe der Schärpe)
"Which is what Ms. Marvel is all about: taking a woman, giving her super-powers - and then treating that super-person with the same intelligence and respect that I would Spider-Man or the FF."
Tatsächlich waren die Leserbriefseiten von großer Bedeutung, weil Marvel Leser nicht nur zu Wort kommen ließ, sondern ihre Beiträge auch ernst nahm. So strickten Leser bis zu einem gewissen Grad an der Entwicklung von Figuren und Plots mit. Ms. Marvel als feministische Heldin - das wird nicht nur aktuell anlässlich des neuen Kinofilms 2019 diskutiert und gefeiert, es war schon zu Beginn der Heftreihe auf der Briefseite mit dem schönen Namen MS. PRINTS Thema. Die Leser und Leserinnen waren bereit und wollten eine Heldin, die endlich für Frauenpower stand und nicht nur gut aussehende Staffage und gelegentliche Damsel in Distress war (und damals wie heute war der Konkurrent DC mit WONDER WOMAN seiner Zeit und Konkurrenz voraus).
Warum Ms. Marvel diesen hinderlichen roten Schal trägt, an dem schon in Heft 4 ein Riesen=Roboter sie mehrfach festhalten und herumschleudern kann, bleibt ihr Geheimnis - geht Mode etwa doch vor Erkenntnis? Der Schal ist jedenfalls bis heute ihr Markenzeichen, wenn er sich auch zeitweise zur Schärpe wandelte.
Überhaupt sind die Kostüme der Heldinnen immer sehr speziell (=sexy und absolut unpraktisch, wenn man gerade mal wieder die Welt retten muß) und werfen Fragen auf, zum Beispiel die, welcher Teil ihres Kostüms wohl Ms. Marvel mit einer Atmosphäre versorgt:
Vielleicht liegt hier das Geheimnis des roten Schals verborgen?
(Achtung, Nerd=Wissen: 2012, als Kelly Sue DeConnick die Serie übernimmt und ihr zu großem Erfolg verhilft, überwältigt Ms. Marvel den Absorbing Man ("Ich glaube, ich kenne dein Problem, Absorbing Man. Du bist enttäuscht, weil dein Name wie ´ne Klopapier-Marke klingt") gleich in Heft 1 mit Hilfe der Schärpe)
January 23, 2021
Some stories begin great...
Some stories become great.
Carol Danvers’ story is the latter.
Some stories become great.
Carol Danvers’ story is the latter.
September 24, 2020
Captain Marvel is one of my favorites and it was a great to read her origin story. I loved reading at the end of each story, the feedback people wrote in about Ms. Marvel at the time. I liked reading the opening by Gerry Conway on looking back on his creation of Ms. Marvel and his feelings when looking back at that time. I loved that Kelly Sue DeConnick also wrote about her time on writing for Captain Marvel and how she researched everything of Carol Danvers life before starting. It also helped to read her musing about Avengers 200 at the end of the book. I've never read that single before, so had no frame of reference when reading Kelly's thoughts. After finishing the book, I went back to read what Kelly wrote again. She's right, Avenger's 200, is garbage but that garbage doesn't take away from her Origin story or how strong Carol Danvers is. In fact, it goes to show how much she has survived and Captain Marvel will always be one of my favorites. Most of the early years and the comics in this Omnibus shows it was written by Chris Claremont who I think did Ms. Marvel justice especially for the years it was written in. He also wrote Avengers Annual 10, which deals with the aftermath of Avengers 200 and I'm glad Carol had people on her side, which the Avengers should have been. I haven't read much Avengers in the late 70's and early 80's and I don't know if their reactions were a product of their time or unusual for that issue. The writers on those Avengers issues were not Chris Claremont and one can't help but wonder if somebody on that writer team hated what Ms. Marvel stood for and what she could become.
These comics were written in the late 70's, which is quite different from today's comics. I'm not only talking about the dialogue and how woman were perceived in the world but about how comics were made. There is at least 2-3 times more dialogue and thought bubbles and they describe or say everything the character does. It can feel like a tough read if you've never read older comics but the story is still solid, especially for the time it was made.
I knew some of Carol Danver's history, at least the major stuff. I started reading Marvel comics, especially Ms. Marvel Comics in the early 2000's. You get dialogue on past history between people. One of the major ones is her encounter with Rogue. This book shows that history and what happened between those two and why.
Overall, I was pleased with what I read, except for Avengers 200, but I was warned that was coming by Kelly, which I appreciated.
These comics were written in the late 70's, which is quite different from today's comics. I'm not only talking about the dialogue and how woman were perceived in the world but about how comics were made. There is at least 2-3 times more dialogue and thought bubbles and they describe or say everything the character does. It can feel like a tough read if you've never read older comics but the story is still solid, especially for the time it was made.
I knew some of Carol Danver's history, at least the major stuff. I started reading Marvel comics, especially Ms. Marvel Comics in the early 2000's. You get dialogue on past history between people. One of the major ones is her encounter with Rogue. This book shows that history and what happened between those two and why.
Overall, I was pleased with what I read, except for Avengers 200, but I was warned that was coming by Kelly, which I appreciated.
May 4, 2025
Before she became Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers soared onto the scene as Ms. Marvel in a 1970s solo series that tried—sometimes clumsily—to craft a feminist superhero in the Marvel mold. A Hero Is Born Omnibus collects Ms. Marvel #1–23, team-ups, Defenders appearances, and key Avengers issues, including the infamous #200 and Claremont’s rebuttal in Annual #10.
Gerry Conway launched the book, but it’s Chris Claremont who gave Carol her voice—balancing soap opera tropes with themes of identity, resilience, and equality. The stories are classic Bronze Age Marvel: text-heavy, villain-packed, and proudly weird. Highlights include early appearances by Mystique, Rogue, and Sabretooth, as well as Carol’s rivalry with Deathbird.
The art—from Buscema, Cockrum, Pérez, and others—is energetic and stylish. Bonus features like fan letters (many from women) and essays from Kelly Sue DeConnick elevate the package and put Carol’s early struggles in context. That context includes Avengers #200, a deeply controversial issue in which Carol is abducted, mind-controlled, and impregnated by an interdimensional being—only for the Avengers to bizarrely celebrate the birth and send her off with her abuser. Claremont responded directly in Avengers Annual #10, giving Carol a voice to condemn the events and reclaiming her agency.
Ms. Marvel doesn’t always stick the landing—especially in the infamous Avengers #200—but this collection shows the messy, meaningful beginnings of one of Marvel’s most enduring heroes.
Gerry Conway launched the book, but it’s Chris Claremont who gave Carol her voice—balancing soap opera tropes with themes of identity, resilience, and equality. The stories are classic Bronze Age Marvel: text-heavy, villain-packed, and proudly weird. Highlights include early appearances by Mystique, Rogue, and Sabretooth, as well as Carol’s rivalry with Deathbird.
The art—from Buscema, Cockrum, Pérez, and others—is energetic and stylish. Bonus features like fan letters (many from women) and essays from Kelly Sue DeConnick elevate the package and put Carol’s early struggles in context. That context includes Avengers #200, a deeply controversial issue in which Carol is abducted, mind-controlled, and impregnated by an interdimensional being—only for the Avengers to bizarrely celebrate the birth and send her off with her abuser. Claremont responded directly in Avengers Annual #10, giving Carol a voice to condemn the events and reclaiming her agency.
Ms. Marvel doesn’t always stick the landing—especially in the infamous Avengers #200—but this collection shows the messy, meaningful beginnings of one of Marvel’s most enduring heroes.
January 17, 2022
Always love reading the origins of how Carol started as Ms Marvel on her way to becoming captain Marvel
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