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Tragically, Marvel didn't live long after his series was cancelled. The 'Captain Marvel' magazine lasted for 62 issues (May, 1968-May, 1979). Eventually, Marvel finds a way to bring back Rick from the Zone and they resume their lives. It was later revealed that this was The Plan of 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's genes. 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.

He also gained his more famous, red-and-blue costume from it.įor 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-band' bracelets, causing them to switch places. He gains new powers from an Earth scientist, and later, from The Supreme Intelligence, a supercomputer who is the Kree's true ruler. He had a brief relationship with Carol Danvers, a NASA security agent, who later becomes a superhero herself (and eventually takes on the mantle of Captain Marvel). 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 also became a target of a larger power struggle within the Kree government. 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'. However, it turns out that Yon-Rogg secretly hated Mar-Vell, mostly because he wanted Una for himself. 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. 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. 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). His name actually was Mar-Vell and he was a captain in the Kree army. This 'Captain Marvel' was an alien (from the Kree, a race that looked exactly like humans except that most of them are blue). 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. Given the value of the name to DC and the utter obscurity of the Marvel version of the character (at least nowadays he was big back in the 70's), you'd think Marvel would cash in and make a mint selling the name back to DC at an enormous profit. The new character first appeared in 'Marvel Super-Heroes' #12 (December, 1967). So he created a new superhero named that, one quite different from the previous ones. This article is about the ones created by Marvel Comics.ĭuring 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. Most of these versions exist in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe.Īs seen in the Captain Marvel article, that name has been applied to various characters in American Comic Book history. Fantastic-style stretch to suggest that this Maria could have been the one taken in by the Kree after the light-speed engine experiment went awry instead of Danvers.Captain Marvel is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. For example, What… If? posits a world where Peggy Carter, not Steve Rogers, was injected with the Super Soldier Serum. Their paths may be similar, but can veer off in dramatically different directions. See: Alligator Loki, and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man (when the Earth-616 version is Tom Holland). In some cases, they can look identical to their MCU counterparts (such is the case here), or can completely different. They introduced us to ‘Variants’, alternate versions of the characters we know and love from the MCU existing on different universes and realities. Marvel shows such as What… If? and Loki, though, help us fill in some blanks. Doctor Strange 2 never explains how Maria Rambeau became Captain Marvel on this Earth instead of Carol Danvers.

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