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The current Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, was originally Ms. Marvel, starring in her own comic book launched by Marvel in 1977 lasting a couple of years. It has become somewhat of a hot political potato amongst some – the allegation is that Marvel has taken a classic superheroine character from the seventies and used her for their identity politics and virtue signalling ends, betraying the original character – especially that her costume is from the most recent comics version of the character that doesn’t show off her navel anymore. And it’s been framed as some kind of modern politically correct, radically feminist diatribe against men and a betrayal of how the character was originally created in the good old seventies. Here are few letters from the first year the comic was published, from its letters column, Ms Prints. Literally, identity politics… This was echoed by Mary-Catherine Gilmore, who found fault with all of Marvel’s leading ladies on feminist terms – but who also rejected the Ms. title as it was too aggressive towards men. She would later be Mary Bierbaum, co-writer with Tom Bierbaum on Legion Of Super-Heroes. Longstanding letter writer Jana C Hollingsworth complained that Ms Marvel’s origin was too tied to that of Captain Marvel, the male Kree warrior Mar-Vell, a complaint that has been echoed of late, and dealt with very differently in both the movie and in the recent The Life Of Captain Marvel comic book mini-series. The discussion of Ms Marvel’s feminine identity continued, as further letter writers took issue with each other’s interpretation. Even back then, few it seemed could agree… And still more came, with Suzanne P Elliott, criticising the gendered use of language on the cover as an insult, while Tony Bole talked about initially not wanting to buy the comic because it had a woman in the lead. And Jo Duffy, comic book letter writer and now Marvel editor as of 1978.

The comic book mastermind who changed the landscape of the superhero genre has died at age 95. Lee revolutionized the comic world by creating Marvel Comics superheroes such as Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four and The Incredible Hulk. FOX News Channel…