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

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For me there is no reason whatsoever that the very first Captain Marvel woman is never to be acknowledged to ever be Captain Marvel.

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Marvel Team-Up #143 Jul 1984
"Shifts and Planes" Part 2 of 2. Guest-starring Spider-Man, Captain Marvel and Starfox.
In order to stop Eric Paulson and William Lorber from transporting a billion people to another dimension in a misguided attempt to save the Earth,
Spider-Man and Captain Marvel forced their PRIDE generator into another dimension itself. However, this has come at a terrible price,
as Captain Marvel is trapped in her energy form. Try as she might, Marvel cannot bring herself to return to human form.
She explains to Spider-Man that her powers are dimensional in nature and that there may be a connection between the PRIDE generator
and her inability to return to human form. Hearing this, Spider-Man theorizes that whenever Captain Marvel changes her form,
her physical body swaps places with the dimension in which her energy forms come from.
He figures that the PRIDE Generator must have caused some kind of interference to prevent the exchange from happening.
All they need to do is create a similar effect. Spider-Man attempts this by activating one of the wrist transporters that
Paulson's minions used to teleport between dimensions. However, this does nothing but send the wrist transporter to another dimension.

It's then that Starfox arrives having captured Dr. Lorber while he was attempting to make his escape.
While filling Starfox in on what happened, they then demand Dr. Lorber explain to them what they need to do to restore Monica to normal.

The doctor explains that they will need travel to the dimension where the PRIDE Generator has been sent
and provided it hasn't been destroyed, shut it down in order to end its interference with Captain Marvel's powers.
Dr. Lorber then programs the transportation devices to take both Spider-Man and Starfox to the other dimension so they can find the PRIDE device.

Upon their arrival, they are soon attacked by a group of male warriors.
Although Spider-Man and Starfox are able to hold their own against their attackers,
the warriors are driven away by a rival faction of female warriors.
Much to their surprise, Spider-Man and Starfox can understand their rescuers because they communicate telepathically.
They learn that they are a clan called the Elysian and that they have been in combat with a rival group calling themselves the Mahko.
Taken to the Elysian village, they learn that this society is one where different tasks are
divided equally between both genders, and that of combat is traditionally that of women.

The Elysian leader, Sondia, explains to the two heroes that the Mahko Clan has been nothing more than
a minor irritant until recently when they gained a new leader, a savage warrior called the Will-Killer.
However, they have been able to hold back the Mahko thanks to the arrival of a strange machine.
As it turns out, this is none of than the PRIDE Generator, which they have used to project
a shield around the Elysian village banishing all those who come into contact to another dimension.
As this is the device they need, later that evening, Starfox concludes that the only way they
can convince the Elyisan's to shut down the PRIDE is by neutralizing the threat of the Mahko.
The pair then sneaks out of the Elyisan camp and fly to the Mahko camp.
There, they challenge the Mahko's to a battle with their leader. Starfox is confident he can easily best the Will-Killer.
However, something in this dimension makes him incredibly ill just moments before the battle.
This leaves Spider-Man to fight the Will-Killer alone. The massive and brutal Will-Killer leaves Spider-Man on the defensive.
However, the massive warrior manages to get in some powerful blows, proving that he is more than a match against Spider-Man.
Ultimately, the wall-crawler wins the battle by flipping the Will-Killer off the edge of a cliff to his demise.
With this, Starfox fights off his illness and sends the rest of the clan fleeing into the wasteland.

The pair returns to the Elysian's and tell them of their victory and they gladly deactivate the PRIDE Generator.
With their mission complete, Spider-Man drags Starfox back to their dimension
before he can delay their return with yet another romantic interlude with Sondia.
The pair narrowly makes it back, but are helped across the dimensional void by Captain Marvel, who has been restored to normal.

With their adventure over, the Captain thanks her two allies for helping her regain control of her powers.

Script by David Michelinie. Pencils by Greg LaRocque. Inks by Mike Esposito.

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Uncanny X-Men #246 Jul 1989
"The Day of Other Lights!"
Dazzler looks into the Siege Perilous using her laser eye blasts to see what would be in store for her if she passed through the portal.
Each image (lawyer, superhero, singer, houswife, bag lady) she see’s shows her dying in a brutal manner.
She doesn’t believe what she is seeing as the images form of a decaying corpse which tells her that death comes to us all.
Then as quickly as it started the images have gone and Dazzler is alone in the darkened room.
She is so scared she is shaking and is unable to produce any light as she has been drained of energy.
She pulls out a tape from her bag and finds a tape drive to play it on.
She then creates light from the music and realises that her hand is bleeding where it was holding the Siege Perilous.

In New York city Nimrod breaks into a building where a gang is selling narcotics.
The gangsters fire on Nimrod, which has no effect, and after administering a final warning, he kills them all before destroying the drugs.
He then leaves with the money, and decides to give it back to the community.

Back in Australia Wolverine is washing when Storm interupts him.
She confronts him about wanting to take a leave of absence.
He tells her it is something that he has to do and has to do alone and that he will be back when he’s finished.

In Washington DC Carol Danvers, in control of Rogue's body, visits the "Wall", where the names of dead soldiers are carved in.
She leaves her medal of honour where her little brother’s name is and apologises for not coming for a long time.
She starts to cry, salutes and then flies off.

In Australia Longshot is watching Colossus train against Havok. Havok is really pushing himself.
He gets Longshot to throw some blades in the air which he attempts to destroy whilst avoiding Colossus attacking him.
He misses some and gets angry with himself when a blast ricochets of Colossus and towards Longshot, only for Longshot to dodge at the last minute.
Dazzler turns up and gets Colossus to throw some more blades in the air which she destroys with ease causing Havok to get slightly jealous.

In Manhattan, Senator Kelly is at the Hellfire Club talking with Sebastian Shaw
who is enquiring funding for another Sentinel project which Kelly is oppossed to.
The discussion is interrupted by Kelly's wife Sharon.
Being a former waitress of the club she thought it funny to dress up once more as a maid, but the senator is shocked and slightly embarresed.

Downtown Carol leaves her old appartment and thanks the landlady for looking after her stuff.

She then meets up with Psylocke and they talk about the problems Carol is having with 'sharing' Rogue‘s body;
she also shows her the costume she wore as Ms. Marvel.

Further downtown Nicholas Hunter (Nimrod) is working on a construction site when he finds a small circuitry module.
He picks it up and starts to run a scan; suddenly he reverts back to his true robotic configuration and causes near explosives to blow up.
After the dust has cleared Master Mold appears from the rubble.

Carol and Psylocke are walking down a street when Betsy telepathically hears the screams from the workmen.
Carol flies to the site and sees Master Mold repairing himself with the construction materials.

Believing to be safe since the X-Men are invisible to technical scans, she attacks but is knocked away and smashes into senator Kelly’s limo.
Senator Kelly is knocked unconsious and his wife, still in a daze, gets him out of the car, but then runs back to pull out the superhero.
Carol's mind is unconscious and so Rogue is in control after waking up.
She is angry that Carol made her wear the "ugly" Ms. Marvel costume.
Sharon Kelly tries to help her free from the wreckage when Master Mold targets them.
Rogue tells her to run and she’ll draw its fire but the robot's confused sensors lock on Sharon and shoot. Then it targets on Rogue.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by Marc Silvestri and Dan Green.

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This is not a question with a straightforward answer because the Captain Marvel comic was (despite how much I love it) creatively a bit of a mess.

I'm going to argue for one pair at a time.

When we first see Mar-Vell in his new red-and-blue, he is wearing gold wristbands as part of his outfit, but I don't think they are supposed to be the Nega-bands; they are, as far as I can tell, purely cosmetic. If they were Nega-bands he should be able to do things with them while in the Negative Zone, but he doesn't, presumably because they are useless. Rick is lured into putting on a pair of Nega-bands on Earth, and when he smashes them together he switches place with Mar-Vell, with Mar-Vell being on Earth and wearing the bands, and Rick in the Negative Zone - only Rick is not wearing the bands there. So, there are only one pair of bands (except for the new pair Rick finds in another Kree outpost on Earth (CM#23) to replace the original pair that dissolved in the early part of the Avengers Kree/Skrull War), worn by whoever is on Earth.

So I think some artists saw gold wrist-bands as part of Mar-Vell's uniform and drew them on him even when he shouldn't have been wearing Nega-bands, like Don Heck and Gil Kane did at the end of CM #16 and beginning of #17 respectively, while others thought without the bands he should look bare-wristed, thus causing confusion.

Really, most writers seem completely confused by what Mar-Vell's powers were, where they came from, and what their limits were. Even as a life-long Mar-Vell fan I'm not really sure I could categorically state which of Mar-Vell's powers comes from where.

Hmm thanks a lot for responding with your thoughts.

It's true that his powers were written a bit inconsistently, and I guess that even transferred over to the art at the time.

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The comicbook character Arabella Jones first appeared in Ms. Marvel #15..

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..And in the very next issue the comicbook character Carol Danvers agreed to take the apartment the comicbook character Arabella had shown to her.

Ms. Marvel #16 Apr 1978
"The Deep Deadly Silence!"
Continued from last issue... Ms. Marvel has travelled to Avengers Mansion to seek their resources to find a way to go after Tiger Shark,
who has just escaped into the ocean with Namorita as his hostage. This leads to a brief battle against the Beast and Scarlet Witch.
After everything is explained, the two Avengers allow Ms. Marvel to use their lab to devise a way to allow her to breath underwater, a task at which she is able to succeed.

Tracking down Tiger Shark to a sunken battleship, there she fights against Tiger Shark, who uses the sunken ship's missiles and a squid to try and stop her.
However, in spite of these efforts, Ms. Marvel gets up close and battles Tiger Shark hand-to-hand. The battle ends with Ms. Marvel beating Tiger Shark and knocking him out.

However, it's at that moment Ms. Marvel's ability to breath underwater wears off, and she also blacks out.
When she comes to, Ms. Marvel finds that Namorita had summoned a rescue ship from Atlantis that came to their rescue, and took Tiger Shark into their custody.

Chris Claremont script. Jim Mooney & Frank Springer art.

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Iron Man #18 Jul 1999
"Sunset Intrigues" Guest-starring the black & gold Warbird!
Iron Man lifts Fin Fang Foom out of the Pacific and secures him on an aircraft carrier, where he is greeted by Sunset Bain,
who reveals Baintronics have been subcontracted to provide transport assistance for the Navy.
Later, Stark holds a party at his place where Sunset hires him. They're interrupted by Abner Little who also wants to hire Stark, but Tony declines.
In Brooklyn, an Inspector wonders why two-bit hood Rafe Michel's body has been stolen from its grave.
After the party Stark phones Rumiko hoping to see her, but she's in Fiji. Tony wonders how Warbird is doing;

at that moment she is battling Golden-Blade and Sapper on the top of a submarine.

Iron Man drops in to help, but notices she's drunk. Meanwhile, Rhodey and Glenda fly back to the US.
War Machine watches Iron Man and Warbird on the news, but Sunset tells him not to attack them.
Iron Man and Warbird eventually overpower Golden-Blade and Sapper,

but Warbird's miscalculations cause Sapper to explode. She wakes up in her apartment,
where Stark offers her coffee to sober up, and she breaks down asking for his help.

Story by Roger Stern and Kurt Busiek. Art by Sean Chen, Eric Cannon and Larry Stucker.

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First encounter between Ms. Marvel, Sapper and Golden-Blade in Ms. Marvel #13...

Ms. Marvel #13 Jan 1978
"Homecoming!"
Carol has come to visit her parents in Boston with her friend Michael Barnett after the events of last issue.

Recounting the end of her battle with Hecate, we learn that because of her exposure to the Scarlet Scarab,
her human and Kree selves have perfectly synched and Carol can now assume her Ms. Marvel guise whenever she pleases.

After visiting with her mother, and after her father (a construction worker) has a near accident at one of his sites, Carol and Michael have a date aboard the USS Constitution.
The festivities are spoiled when an alien robot named Sapper arrives with a robot warrior, prompting Carol to change into Ms. Marvel.
Although Sapper tries to absorb her energy, she manages to defeat Sapper and his minion when his robot minion is damaged, forcing them to flee.

Chris Claremont script. Jim Mooney & Joe Sinnott art.

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Binary joins the Starjammers in Uncanny X-Men #174...

Uncanny X-Men #174 Oct 1983
"Romances" Guest-starring the Starjammers!
Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor rest on the Starjammer and watch an "earthrise".


In the cockpit, Corsair introduces Binary as a member of the Starjammers.

The Starjammers have decided to leave soon to fight for Lilandra
against Deathbird, accompanied by their newest member, Binary.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by Paul Smith and Bob Wiacek.

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Captain Marvel #23 Jul 2004
Odyssey Part 5: "...Go the Spoils"
Marlo was attacked by the cosmically evil sorcerer known as the Magus.
Marv's sister, Phyla, has taken Marlo off Earth for safe-keeping while


the cosmic adventuress Moondragon, waited in ambush for the Magus.

Meanwhile, Captain Marvel continues to defend future Earth against the Shi'ar/Kree/Skrull armada. But is the cure worse than the condition?

Written by PETER DAVID. Pencils by PAT QUINN.

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Captain Marvel #3 Jul 2014
"Higher, Further, Faster, More. Part Three"
In order to avoid an intergalactic incident

Carol parts with the Guardians of the Galaxy

so that she can take her mysterious alien passenger home...

and lands in the middle of an uprising against the Galactic Alliance!

(W) Kelly Sue DeConnick (A) David Lopez

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Ms. Marvel #4 Jul 2014
"Past Curfew"
Kamala Khan discovers the dangers of her newfound powers.

And unlocks a secret behind them as well.


Written by G. Willow Wilson. Art by Adrian Alphona.

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Ms. Marvel #1

Ms. Marvel #2

Ms. Marvel #3

by Cesar-Hernandez

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Captain Marvel #15 Aug 1969
"That Zo Might Live... a Galaxy Must Die!"
Continued from last issue... Zo has come forth to Mar-Vell and shown him
the balance of the universe and what would happen if Zo's will is not done.

He explains to Mar-Vell that the followers of the Kree god Tam-Bor, who have built
an idol to their god, use a magnetic force that threatens to destroy the whole universe.
Transporting Mar-Vell to the city of his birth,

Mar-Vell steals a ship to fly to the location where the worshipers of Tam-Bor reside.

Allowing himself to get captured, in hopes the followers will take him to their headquarters.

Script by Gary Friedrich, pencils by Gary Friedrich (breakdowns) and Tom Sutton (pencils), inks by Dan Adkins