My Captain Mar-Vell, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Binary and Warbird CELEBRATION!

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Commencing with the following anniversaries;

Captain Mar-Vell 1967, [B]50th anniversary[/B]
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Marvel Super Heroes #12 origin and first appearance of Captain Mar-Vell

Ms. Marvel 1977, [B]40th anniversary[/B]
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Ms. Marvel # 1 first appearance of the [U]super-powered[/U] Carol Danvers[/CENTER]

[CENTER]Captain Marvel 1982, [B]35th anniversary[/B]
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Captain Marvel made a high-profile debut in the [B][I]1982 Amazing Spider-Man Annual # 16[/I][/B].
Right off the bat, Marvel was treating this character as someone that they wanted to be seen, and having her appear for the first time in a Spider-Man story was the perfect way to get fans’ attention onto her.

Binary 1982, [B]35th anniversary[/B]
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In the [B][I]1982 Uncanny X-Men # 164[/I][/B] issue readers got to meet the new and improved Carol Danvers aka BINARY!
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Leave it to Chris Claremont to rescue and restore the former Ms. Marvel to new and greater glory!
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[CENTER][B]Ms. Marvel # 1 Jan 1977[/B]
"This Woman, This Warrior"
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Carol Danvers meets Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, and battles the Scorpion when she gets a job at the Daily Bugle as a fashion editor.[/CENTER]

[center]And the first volume of the first Captain Marvel series with the current and most prominent Captain Marvel aka Carol Danvers, is gonna have it's [B]5th anniversary[/B]. ;)
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We saw Carol Danvers with the Captain Marvel mantle for the first time in [B]2012 Captain Marvel #1.[/B][/center]

[CENTER][B]Captain Marvel # 48 Jan 1977[/B]
"Crucible!"
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Captain Mar-Vell battles a Kree Sentry and the Cheetah in "Crucible!"
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So these anniversaries are all multiples of 5. Awesome. And yeah, Monica Rambeau's first appearance being in a Spider-Man comic. Did not know that one. Thanks, 616MarvelYear is LeapYear.

I'd love some of those covers modernized with Carol in mind especially those Mar-Vell ones :)

art by Mark Brooks
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There is one itty bitty problem with your first issue of Ms.Marvel #1 dated January 1977. Comic books, for decades, have been dated 2 months in advance! So...I believe that first issue of Ms.Marvel actually came out in November of 1976...

[QUOTE=Huntsman Spider;2508405]So these anniversaries are all multiples of 5. Awesome. And yeah, Monica Rambeau's first appearance being in a Spider-Man comic. Did not know that one. Thanks, 616MarvelYear is LeapYear.[/QUOTE]

You're welcome. Marvel comics repeated their strategy [B][SIZE=1]of making use of a Spider-Man comic[/SIZE][/B] 30 years later.

To me it goes to show how popular Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man [B][SIZE=1]who celebrates his 55th anniversary in 2017 [/SIZE][/B] always has been.

I must admit I've missed seeing images of Carol's Ms Marvel look, although I do like her current costume (her hair, ironically, is the one area I'd improve on in terms of her look, maybe have it still relatively short but maybe a little bit longer? I don't know LOL) ANYWAY, it makes for nice nostalgia to see images of her old look. :)

Brooks is one of the few to make her new outfit look decent, IMHO. I don't like the blue leotard -- too Captain America and generic. And here the short hair works much better than the too-short style she was/is sporting. Another thing that bugs me is how the star shape blurs into the stripes.

CAPTAIN MARVEL CAROL - the best

A very nice celebration!

Wow, me likey this thread!

I love those old stories, especially Carol's first book.

I prefer Carol as Ms Marvel or as Binary.