Ms. Marvel

Ms. Marvel is the name of several fictional super heroines appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was originally a female counterpart to Captain Marvel. Like Captain Marvel, most of the bearers of the Ms. Marvel title gain their powers through Kree technology or genetics. Marvel has published three ongoing comic series titled Ms. Marvel, with the first two starring Carol Danvers, and the third starring Kamala Khan.

Carol Danvers

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Carol Danvers, the first character to use the moniker Ms. Marvel, first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #13 (March 1968) by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan as a non-superpowered officer in United States Air Force. After being caught in an explosion with the Kree superhero Captain Marvel in Captain Marvel #18 (November 1969), Danvers resurfaces in Ms. Marvel #1 (January 1977) with super powers as result of the explosion which caused her DNA to merge with Captain Marvel's. As Ms. Marvel, Danvers becomes a mainstay of the superhero team, The Avengers beginning in The Avengers #171 (May 1978). Danvers goes on to use the codenames Binary and Warbird and, as of July 2012, Danvers assumes the mantle Captain Marvel in honor of the hero who gave Danvers her powers.

Sharon Ventura

Sharon Ventura, the second character to use the pseudonym Ms. Marvel, first appeared in The Thing #27 (September 1985), by Mike Carlin and Ron Wilson, as a stunt performer with the Thunderiders, where she met The Thing. In The Thing #35 (May 1986), Ventura volunteered for Power Broker's experiment to receive superpowers in order to join the Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation with The Thing, taking the name Ms. Marvel. Ventura later joins the Fantastic Four herself in Fantastic Four #307 (October 1987) and, after being hit by cosmic rays in Fantastic Four #310 (January 1988), Ventura's body mutates into a similar appearance to that of The Thing and receives the nickname She-Thing.

Karla Sofen

Dr. Karla Sofen, the super villain known as Moonstone, first appeared in Captain America #192 (December 1975), by Marv Wolfman and Frank Robbins, as the gun moll of Doctor Faustus. In The Incredible Hulk #228 (October 1978), it is revealed that Sofen was the psychiatrist of the former Moonstone, Lloyd Bloch and she tricked Bloch into giving her the meteorite, that is the source of her powers. During the "Dark Reign" storyline, Sofen joins Norman Osborn's group of Avengers, known as the Dark Avengers, as the doppelganger of Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers. Sofen becomes the title character of Ms. Marvel series beginning in issue #38 (June 2009) until Danvers takes it back in issue #47 (January 2010).

Kamala Khan

Kamala Khan, created by Sana Amanat, G. Willow Wilson, and Adrian Alphona, is the fourth character to take the name Ms. Marvel. Khan first appeared in Captain Marvel #17 (November 2013) and is a 16 year-old Pakistani-American from Jersey City, New Jersey, who idolizes Carol Danvers. Khan was given her own Ms. Marvel series, which premiered in February 2014, becoming Marvel Comics' first Muslim character to headline her own comic book.

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