Credits[]
- Writer: Gerry Conway
- Art: John Buscema
- Editor: Joe Sinnott
- Letters: John Costanza
- Colorist: Marie Severin
Plot Summary[]
"This Woman, This Warrior!"
In Issue #1 of Ms. Marvel, we are introduced to our heroine and her strength as she stops some criminals. However, in the background, the Scorpion steals a pile of money from a near by bank. Eventually, Carol Danvers awakens and goes to her newly found job at the Daily Bulge working on a women's magazine called "Woman". While at the Daily Bugle, Carol and J. Jonah Jameson negotiate her salary and she meets Peter Parker and Mary Jane.
Mean while on the Brooklyn Bay Shore, Scorpion meets with a Professor Kerwin Korman. Scorpion trades his stole money for a key created by Professor Korman. In Carol's apartment, Carol is having tea with Mary Jane when all of the sudden, she has a threatening headache and asks Mary Jane to leave. Mary Jane leaves and Carol then passes out in her apartment. J. Jonah Jameson is captured by the Scorpion and taken to a secret lab where he is hung above a pit of toxic chemicals. Ms. Marvel suddenly appears and with the help of Joe Robertson, she finds Scorpion and J. Jonah Jameson. Scorpion uses the key to start lowering J. Jonah Jameson into the chemicals and Ms. Marvel and Scorpion fight. The fight ends with Ms. Marvel throwing Scorpion into the vat of toxic chemicals. Ms. Marvel then saves the ungrateful J. Jonah Jameson. The end of the story cuts to Carol Danvers, worrying about her sudden headaches and if they might get better or worse.
Notes[]
- Carol's solo adventures begin here! If not for this issue, our heroine wouldn't exist, and there would be no need for this wiki.
- Carol's first appearance, however, was in Marvel Super Heroes (1967) no. 13, introduced as a potential love interest for Mar-Vell.
- This comic, along with other series, such as Spider-Woman and She-Hulk, have the complicated United States trademark law to thank for its existence. In the mid-1970s, Marvel Comics didn't want any other comic publishers or Hollywood studios to make derivative characters based on any of their work. Thus, Marvel created female versions of some of their popular characters before the competition could. It could be said that the success of Carol Danvers as either Ms. Marvel or Captain Marvel as a hero is owed to corporate paranoia!
- Ironically, Marvel Entertainment is now owned by Disney, the largest studio in Hollywood... so there you go.