Una was killed in issue #11-an unusual event in comics at that time. Much of the comic’s tension issued from the love triangle of Mar-Vell, Una, and Yon-Rogg, whose ruthless attitude to the natives (us!), and designs on the young nurse, gradually forced the pacifist Mar-Vell to turn against his own people. Confusingly, in his Kree identity he is Mar-Vell but seemingly changes the spelling of his name to Marvel when indulging in superheroics. Donning his white and green space suit (which looks much like a superhero costume), he has all sorts of abilities, including flying and super strength, which he has much use for as he encounters all manner of monsters, villains, and alien creatures. The Captain is dispatched undercover to assume the role of a professor in the Cape Canaveral missile complex, where he meets beautiful security chief Carol Danvers. To find out what happened to their Sentry, the Kree send out an espionage unit headed by the ambitious Colonel Yon-Rogg and including the romantic couple of medic Una and Captain Mar-Vell.

Nevertheless, that first appearance of the character in Marvel Superheroes #12 was one of the more unusual of the 1960s.Īn earlier issue of the Fantastic Four had introduced a large robot called the Sentry, which had been sent to Earth by an alien race called the Kree, who had apparently been visiting the planet for centuries. Marvel Comics’ hero, on whom this entry focuses, premiered in late 1967, and it is widely thought that the company primarily wanted to copyright the name (as the publisher’s success has grown, it has become increasingly proprietary over the name Marvel). In 1966, notorious schlock publisher Myron Fass published a few issues of his own Captain Marvel, about which the less said the better. (Cover art by Jim Starlin.) Captain Marvel (pop culture)Īs of 2004, there have been five Captain Marvels, the first of whom was Fawcett Comics’ best-selling character and the most popular superhero of the Golden Age of comics (1938-1954).

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