Ms Marvel: The New Mutant
Breakout comics star Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, enters an exciting new era of storytelling – co-written by the actress that plays her, Iman Vellani!
Ms. Marvel burst onto the comic book scene in 2014’s Ms. Marvel #1 by writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona, and quickly become Marvel Comics’ brightest new star! With multiple hit solo comic runs (including her NY Times best-selling and Award Winning first volume), notable stints on the Avengers and Champions, pivotal roles in crossover events, and memorable team-ups with her favorite heroes, Ms. Marvel has become a full-fledged pop culture icon, a fact proven by the multitude of Ms. Marvel cosplays seen on Comic Con floors worldwide! During a Women’s History Month celebration at the White House in 2016, editor and co-creator Sana Amanat even presented a copy of Ms. Marvel’s first volume to President Obama! And just in time for her character’s arrival on the big screen in the upcoming film The Marvels, Kamala Khan will be undergoing an exciting evolution in the comics universe in a new limited series, MS. MARVEL: THE NEW MUTANT!
Kamala was introduced as a high school student living in Jersey City with her family, including her strict parents. During 2013’s Infinity event, Kamala is engulfed in Terrigen Mist and unlocking her latent superhuman abilities and learns of her secret Inhuman heritage. In that moment, she decided to follow in the footsteps of her idol Captain Marvel and took on the mantle of Ms. Marvel to become Jersey City’s prime protector!
Recently, Kamala made a heroic sacrifice in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man, but was later reborn anew thanks to mutant-exclusive resurrection technology! That’s right, Kamala Khan is a mutant! This game-changing revelation will thrust the character into the exciting world of the X-Men as she joins the team just as they enter the new era of FALL OF X! In this thrilling age of hate and fear, Kamala has a secret mission to pull off for the X-Men, all the while struggling to acclimate to this new part of her identity! The series will be an action-packed and heartfelt journey of self-discovery as Kamala explores this long-hidden truth about herself and realizes how it overlaps and interacts with other aspects of her identity. This extraordinary era for the character will be co-written by the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s own Kamala Khan, actress Iman Vellani, and Sabir Pirzada, writer of the recent Dark Web: Ms. Marvel limited series and Ms. Marvel’s Disney+ series!
COLLECTING: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant (2023) 1-4
