| rdfs:comment | - Identity/Class: Extra-dimensional (Earth-Amalgam) altered human Occupation: hero Affiliations: (currently) the Kree; the Judgment League: Avengers, Angelhawk (Warren Hall), Canary (Dinah Barton), Dark Claw (Logan Wayne), Goliath (Ollie Queen), Hawkeye (Clint Archer), Red Vision, Super-Soldier (Clark Kent), JLA West, JLA International, S.H.I.E.L.D.; (formerly) JLA: The New Blood (now known as the JLX); Apollo (Ray Summers), Firebird (Beatriz Grey), Mariner (Arthur McKenzie), Mercury (Pietro "Pete" Allen), Nightcreeper (Kurt Ryder), Runaway, Wraith (Todd LeBeau), Wonder Woman (Ororo) History:
- As seen in the Captain Marvel article, that name has been applied to various characters in American Comic Book history. This article is about the ones created by Marvel Comics. During the 1960s, writer Stan Lee noticed that the name's trademark from the Fawcett Comics character was available again, and decided that Marvel should own it (Marvel Comics, Captain Marvel... makes sense, right?). So he created a new superhero named that, one quite different from the previous ones. The new character first appeared in "Marvel Super-Heroes" #12 (December, 1967). Given the value of the name to DC and the utter obscurity of the Marvel version of the character, you'd think Marvel would cash in and make a mint selling the name back to DC at an enormous profit... except for the fact that he's called "Ca
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| abstract | - As seen in the Captain Marvel article, that name has been applied to various characters in American Comic Book history. This article is about the ones created by Marvel Comics. During the 1960s, writer Stan Lee noticed that the name's trademark from the Fawcett Comics character was available again, and decided that Marvel should own it (Marvel Comics, Captain Marvel... makes sense, right?). So he created a new superhero named that, one quite different from the previous ones. The new character first appeared in "Marvel Super-Heroes" #12 (December, 1967). Given the value of the name to DC and the utter obscurity of the Marvel version of the character, you'd think Marvel would cash in and make a mint selling the name back to DC at an enormous profit... except for the fact that he's called "Captain Marvel" and they're called "Marvel Comics" and you just can't let that kind of synchronicity slip away from you. This "Captain Marvel" was an alien (from the Kree, a race that looked exactly like humans except for a blue-skinned minority that rules them.) His name actually was Mar-Vell and he was a captain in the Kree army. He came to Earth as part of mission to investigate Earth's space technology achievements (later justified by saying that Earth was located near a strategically important space warp.) Mar-Vell is sent to Earth while being monitored from orbit by the rest of his crew, which included his girlfriend Una and his superior, Colonel Yon-Rogg. Mar-Vell discovers he's the exact lookalike of an American senator, who has just been murdered, so he takes over his identity to further his mission. However, it turns out that Yon-Rogg secretly hated Mar-Vell, mostly because he wanted Una for himself. So he tries to have Mar-Vell killed. This forces Marvel (who has Super Strength due to coming from a planet with higher gravity) to fight openly while wearing his Kree uniform, which caused people to mistake him for a new superhero called "Captain Marvel". He also became a target of a larger power struggle within the Kree government. The betrayal from his own people (and the eventual death of Una) leads Mar-Vell to adopt Earth (and the name Captain Marvel) as his own. He had a brief relationship with Carol Danvers, a NASA security agent, who later becomes a superhero herself (Ms. Marvel). He gains new powers from an Earth scientist, and later, from The Supreme Intelligence, a supercomputer who is the Kree's true ruler. He also gained his more famous, red-and-black costume from it. For a period of time, Marvel found himself accidentally "merged" with teenage singer Rick Jones (the same kid who was involved in The Incredible Hulk's origin) so that only one of them could exist in the universe, with the other one stuck in the dimension called the Negative Zone until the one on Earth struck together his "nega-bands" bracelets, causing them to switch places. (Writer Roy Thomas has admitted that this was done as a nod to the original Captain Marvel, who was a child who could turn into an adult superhero.) It was later revealed that this was part of a Xanatos Gambit by the Supreme Intelligence, who was really a Magnificent Bastard whose ultimate goal was to jumpstart the evolutionary potential of the Kree race via Rick Jones' genes. Eventually, Marvel finds a way to bring back Rick from the Zone and they resume their lives. The "Captain Marvel" magazine lasted for 62 issues (May, 1968-May, 1979). Tragically, Marvel didn't live long after his series was cancelled. In a very rare case of a comic book character being Killed Off for Real, he died from a cancer he got from exposure to nerve gas during one of his adventures. His death was covered The Death Of Captain Marvel (Marvel Graphic Novel #1, April 1982, written and illustrated by Jim Starlin), and Mar-Vell's death is universally considered one of the most touching, well-written and dignified in the history of comics.
- Identity/Class: Extra-dimensional (Earth-Amalgam) altered human Occupation: hero Affiliations: (currently) the Kree; the Judgment League: Avengers, Angelhawk (Warren Hall), Canary (Dinah Barton), Dark Claw (Logan Wayne), Goliath (Ollie Queen), Hawkeye (Clint Archer), Red Vision, Super-Soldier (Clark Kent), JLA West, JLA International, S.H.I.E.L.D.; (formerly) JLA: The New Blood (now known as the JLX); Apollo (Ray Summers), Firebird (Beatriz Grey), Mariner (Arthur McKenzie), Mercury (Pietro "Pete" Allen), Nightcreeper (Kurt Ryder), Runaway, Wraith (Todd LeBeau), Wonder Woman (Ororo) Enemies: Fin Fang Flame Base of Operations: JLA Headquarters First Appearance: JLX#1 (April, 1996); Whiz Marvels#1 (in Amalgam continuity) Powers/Abilities: As Captain Marvel, Billy Mar-Vell possesses a wide variety of superhuman powers. He has exhibited superhuman strength and resistance to injury as well as the ability to fly at fast speeds. History: (Whiz Marvels#1) - Captain Marvel made his first on-panel appearance. Billy Mar-Vell was really a young boy (a fact that would remain unknown to even his Judgment League: Avengers teammates in the future), but when he shouted the alien word "Kree!" he was super-scientifically transformed into the adult hero known as Captain Marvel. (Judgment League: Avengers (vol. I)#4) - After Angelhawk (Warren Hall), Canary (Dinah Barton), and Goliath (Oliver Queen) found and revived the body of the World War II hero known as Super-Soldier (Clark Kent), Captain Marvel joined forces with the quartet of heroes and formed the Judgment League: Avengers. Billy Mar-Vell elected to keep the fact that he was really a young boy a secret from his new teammates. (Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour) - Along with the other members of the Judgment League: Avengers, Captain Marvel was transported to Apokolips by Doctor Strangefate (Charles Xavier) in order to fight the forces of Thanoseid during the Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour. (Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour#7) - Near the close of the Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour, Captain Marvel was among those heroes present as American Girl (Carol Barnes), the former sidekick of Super-Soldier (Clark Kent), heroically sacrificed her life to further the heroes' cause. (Judgment League: Avengers (vol. II)#122) - "Trial of Mariner" - The metamutant member of the Judgment League: Avengers known as Aqua-Mariner (Arthur McKenzie) was framed for the destruction of three Roxxon oil freighters, a heinous criminal act which was actually perpetrated by the metamutant-hating madman known as Will Magnus. Given Aqua-Mariner's longtime personal war against surface dwellers who would harm his undersea habitat, the United States government automatically labeled him an "eco-terrorist" and sent in an army of troops to apprehend him without so much as an investigation. Captain Marvel and his fellow non-metamutant members of the JLA eventually captured Aqua-Mariner and imprisoned him without trial. Outraged by the manner in which their fellow metamutant was imprisoned without trial, most of the metamutant members of the JLA, under the guidance of the mysterious New Gotham power broker known only as Mr. X (Marco Xavier), freed Aqua-Mariner from JLA custody and set out to find the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary city of Homo Superior, under the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. But Captain Marvel and his fellow non-metamutant members of the Judgment League: Avengers were not about to give up Aqua-Mariner without a fight . . . (JLX#1) - "A League of Their Own" - On the stormy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, Captain Marvel and the Judgment League: Avengers engaged their former teammates -- the band of renegade metamutants now known as the JLX -- in an attempt to capture the metamutant Aqua-Mariner, who was wanted for torching Roxxon oil tankers. Instructed by Super-Soldier to engage in a full assault on the JLX Wavecruiser, Captain Marvel flew toward the JLX member known as Apollo (Ray Summers). Captain Marvel told Apollo that he and his metamutant associates had gone too far this time, but Apollo only responded by hitting Captain Marvel with one of his optic solar blasts. But when Apollo became preoccupied with defending himself against the JLA member known as Dark Claw (Logan Wayne), Captain Marvel was able to damage the hull of the JLX Wavecruiser with his superhuman strength. Captain Marvel's attack on the JLX Wavecruiser was cut short, however, when Angelhawk (the JLA member who was secretly a metamutant in league with Mr. X) feigned a broken back and fell into the ocean. All of the fighting between the two teams immediately stopped and Captain Marvel desperately dove in after his fallen comrade. Minutes later, Captain Marvel reemerged from the ocean depths with Angelhawk in his arms. Captain Marvel and his JLA teammates then retreated so that they could get Angelhawk medical attention, vowing to bring Aqua-Mariner to justice another day. (JLX Unleashed!#1) - "The Inextinguishable Flame" - Captain Marvel assisted fellow JLA members Super-Soldier and Wonder Woman (Ororo) in their futile battle against the immensely powerful Fin Fang Flame, a fiery demon unleashed upon an unsuspecting world by the Hellfire League of Injustice. When Wonder Woman suggested to Super-Soldier that they release the then incarcerated members of the JLX to help in the battle against Fin Fang Flame, Captain Marvel vehemently objected. Captain Marvel reminded his fellow heroes that Mr. X -- the JLX's leader -- was Skrull who was due to be extradited to the Kree homeworld for trial and that "those people" (metamutants) were not to be trusted. Super-Soldier disagreed with Captain Marvel's suggestion that all metamutants were evil by definition, but he admitted that he could not release the JLX because it was his duty to uphold the law. Suddenly, Fin Fang Flame attacked and engulfed Super-Soldier in a ball of flame. Captain Marvel stayed behind to help Super-Soldier as Wonder Woman went on her own to break Mr. X and the JLX out of prison.
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