Ms. Marvel

Ms. Marvel is Carol Danvers, a former security chief at NASA, who first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #13. Later, she would play a supporting role in the Captain Marvel series, although the events of that series would ultimately cause her to lose her job. Before leaving NASA, however, it seems that she had been unknowingly irradiated by the Kree’s Psyche-Magnetron device—a device which gave her the powers of Ms. Marvel.

As this series opens, Carol is slowly discovering her new powers and using them to fight crime. In her identity as Carol Danvers, she has become a women’s magazine editor and has placed herself at the forefront of the battle for women’s rights. That battle plays a strong role in both the plot and the editorial direction of the Ms. Marvel series.

Jump to issue:

#1

Jan 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Gerry Conway, Carla Conway · A: John Buscema

1st appearance of Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers)

18 copies from $40.00
#2

Feb 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Gerry Conway · A: John Buscema

1st appearance of Destructor (Kerwin Korman)

29 copies from $19.99
#3

Mar 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont · A: John Buscema

24 copies from $2.75
#4

Apr 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

Versus Doomsday Man

40 copies from $2.50
#5

May 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont, Archie Goodwin, Jim Shooter · A: Jim Mooney

Origin of Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers); Goodwin and Shooter credits in #8

24 copies from $8.75
#6

Jun 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

Versus Grotesk

28 copies from $3.00
#7

Jul 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

1st appearance of Agent 17; Versus M.O.D.O.K.

13 copies from $2.50
#8

Aug 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

Versus Grotesk

13 copies from $4.80
#9

Sep 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont · A: Keith Pollard

1st appearance of Deathbird (Cal’syee Neramani)

14 copies from $10.30
#10

Oct 1977

Cover: $0.30

W: Chris Claremont · A: Sal Buscema

10 copies from $4.75
#11

Nov 1977

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Sal Buscema

1st appearance of Hecate

10 copies from $7.95
#12

Dec 1977

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Sal Buscema

1st appearance of Hecate; Versus Hecate

9 copies from $9.95
#13

Jan 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

6 copies from $2.75
#14

Feb 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Carmine Infantino

1st appearance of Steeplejack (Maxwell Plumm)

8 copies from $3.50
#15

Mar 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

5 copies from $19.95
#16

Apr 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

1st appearance of Raven Darkholme (Mystique)

2 copies from $75.00
#17

May 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

1st appearance of Centurion (Geoffrey Ballard)

3 copies from $35.00
#18

Jun 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Jim Mooney

1st appearance of Mystique (Raven Darkholme)

1 copy for $119.95
#19

Aug 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Carmine Infantino

13 copies from $9.99
#20

Oct 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Dave Cockrum

New costume

9 copies from $3.75
#21

Dec 1978

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Dave Cockrum

12 copies from $9.50
#22

Feb 1979

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Mike Vosburg

Versus Death-Bird

24 copies from $14.00
#23

Apr 1979

Cover: $0.35

W: Chris Claremont · A: Mike Vosburg

Final Issue

18 copies from $24.95