Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) is a fictional character, an extraterrestrial superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. Marvel's use of the trademark "Captain Marvel", previously that of the highly popular, 1940s Fawcett Comics superhero Captain Marvel, came when the copyright on the original character was up for renewal.
Mar-Vell was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and penciller Gene Colan and first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (Dec. 1967).
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Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) is a fictional character, an extraterrestrial superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. Marvel's use of the trademark "Captain Marvel", previously that of the highly popular, 1940s Fawcett Comics superhero Captain Marvel, came when the copyright on the original character was up for renewal.
Mar-Vell was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and penciller Gene Colan and first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (Dec. 1967).
Following his debut as the lead feature of Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (Dec. 1967) and a second showcase appearance the next issue, Mar-Vell, as Captain Marvel, acquired his own title. Sales proved mediocre, and the character was revamped by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane in issue #17, by merging the hero with Rick Jones via the Kree nega-bands. Thomas has said that the intent of the change was to make the character over into a more science-fiction oriented version of Fawcett Comics' original Captain Marvel . Both comics were now about a young man who...
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