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Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and designed by artist Gene Colan and first appeared in ''Marvel Super-Heroes'' #12 (December 1967). The character debuted during the Silver Age of comic books and has made many appearances since then, including a self-titled series and the second volume of the ''Marvel Spotlight'' series. Captain Marvel was ranked 24th in IGN's list of "The Top 50 Avengers", and has appeared in television series and video games. ==Publication history== From 1940 to 1953 Fawcett Comics published comics featuring their popular character Captain Marvel, and thus held the trademark to the name "Captain Marvel". Fawcett ceased publishing the comics in 1953 due to a 1951 copyright infringement suit from DC Comics, and their trademark ostensibly lapsed. Taking advantage of this situation, Marvel debuted its new Captain Marvel character in 1967 and quickly trademarked the name. Marvel was not the first company to try to capitalize on Fawcett's lapsed trademark; in 1966 the small publisher M. F. Enterprises released a short-lived ''Captain Marvel'' series. Marvel's character debuted as the lead feature in ''Marvel Super-Heroes'' #12 (December 1967), written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Gene Colan. Although usually credited as co-creator, Colan had no involvement with Captain Marvel's conception, and in fact has voiced an intense dislike for the character and especially his original white-and-green costume: "It was awful – just an imitation of any of the other costumed characters I'd ever done." Shortly thereafter, Captain Marvel was given his own series, commencing with ''Captain Marvel'' #1 (May 1968). These appearances established Captain Marvel, or "Mar-Vell", as an alien of the Kree race who had come to earth as a spy before coming to identify with his human neighbors.〔 The series failed to register with readers, and was revamped by writer-artist team Roy Thomas and Gil Kane in issue #17 (October 1969).〔DeFalco "1960s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 138: "Rick Jones...became bonded to Captain Mar-Vell thanks to Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane."〕 The character was given a new uniform, designed by Kane and colorist Michelle Robinson, and greater abilities. An added plot feature was the introduction of sidekick Rick Jones. Jones and Marvel "shared molecules" allowing only one to exist in the real world at a time. Thomas stated that the intent of the change was to create a more science-fiction oriented update that was reminiscent of Fawcett Comics's original Captain Marvel, who similarly had an alter-ego that could not co-exist with the superhero. The change, however, was not successful, and the series was published only intermittently from 1969.〔 It was initially canceled with issue #21 (August 1970), though the character appeared in the Kree-Skrull War storyline in ''Avengers'' #89 – 97 (June 1971 – March 1972), also written by Thomas. The ''Captain Marvel'' series recommenced with issue #22 (September 1972). Plotter and artist Jim Starlin decided to revamp the character with issue #25 (March 1973).〔Sanderson, Peter "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 159: "In March (), the first of artist Jim Starlin's many sagas of the Marvel heroes' wars against Thanos began."〕 Comics historian Les Daniels noted that "In a brief stint with Marvel, which included work on two characters (Marvel and Adam Warlock ) that had previously never quite made their mark, Starlin managed to build a considerable cult following." A spin-off series, ''Ms. Marvel'', was launched in 1977, but sales remained modest, and the series was published on only a bimonthly basis until it was ultimately canceled in 1979.〔 The continued publication, however, kept the trademark current. This had the effect of requiring DC Comics, which in the meantime licensed the original Fawcett Captain Marvel for publication, to print its new comics under the trademark ''Shazam!''. Comics historian Don Markstein states, "Marvel didn't seem to quite know what to do with him—but they did put his comic out every other month through most of the 1970s, if only to maintain their trademark on his name."〔 Mar-Vell appeared in five issues of ''Marvel Spotlight'' vol. 2 in 1979 and 1980. Starlin wrote Mar-Vell's death in Marvel's first graphic novel, ''The Death of Captain Marvel'' (1982).〔DeFalco "1980s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 207: "This title by Jim Starlin was the first of a new series of Marvel Graphic Novels. Running between forty-eight and ninety-six pages, these paperback books were an attempt to compete with the European-style graphic albums."〕 Following the character's death, Marvel published several comics with new characters taking up the "Captain Marvel" moniker, thereby maintaining their trademark on the name.〔 The character returned, although not in a living capacity, in storylines in ''Silver Surfer'' vol. 3 #63 (March 1992) and ''Captain Marvel'' vol. 5, #5 (March 2003). The limited series ''Captain Marvel'' vol. 6, #1–5 (January–June 2008) was released as part of the 2008 "Secret Invasion" storyline and supposedly heralded the return of the character, although it was eventually revealed that this "Mar-Vell" was an alien Skrull. Mar-Vell was one of the featured characters in the 2011 three-issue limited series ''Chaos War: Dead Avengers''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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