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Marvel Comics is relaunching their character Ms. Marvel as and will center on 16-year-old Kamala Khan, a Muslim-American teenager living in Jersey City.
Marvel Comics is adding some needed color to the world of costumed super heroes.
The publisher announced it’s introducing a new Muslim super heroine, a revamped Ms. Marvel, whose secret identity is a Pakistani-American teenager from Jersey City.
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Sixteen-year-old Kamela Khan is the brain child of writer G. Willow Wilson, an Islamic convert herself, and Muslim American editor Sana Amanat in an effort to reach out to segments of the comic book reading public that haven’t had their own heroes.
“At her core, Kamala is just a 16-year-old girl, exploring the many facets of her identity when she is suddenly bestowed with super-human powers that send her on the adventure of a lifetime,” Marvel Comics Editor In Chief Axel Alonso said in a statement.
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Cover of the first issue of the new ‘Ms. Marvel.’
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Khan will debut in January’s “All-New Marvel NOW! Point One Comic Book,” before kicking off her own “Ms. Marvel” series a month later. The creators promised the title would focus as much on her interaction with her more traditional parents as it will with battles with super villains.
“Any time you do something like this, it is a bit of a risk,” Wilson told the New York Times. “You’re trying to bring the audience on board and they are used to seeing something else in the pages of a comic book.”
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Khan’s introduction comes a year after rival publisher DC Comics introduced their own major Muslim-American character — a Green Lantern (and downsized Dearborn, Mich.) named Simon Baz.
“It continued to reinforce that our readership is extremely diverse, so we want to continue to diversify the characters in our universe,” creator Geoff Johns, himself a Lebanese American from Dearborn, told the News at the time.
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