This article has been updated since its publication.
Created by Sana Amanat, G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona in 2013, Kamala Khan was introduced in her own series during Marvel’s ‘Inhumanity’ event. Under Wilson, Kamala’s series ran for 57 issues (including a renumbering) until 2019, when it was relaunched with writer Saladin Ahmed (no relation) as “Magnificent Ms. Marvel.” That series came to a conclusion with issue #18 earlier this year. The book marks Samira Ahmed’s comic book debut, and the first time one of Kamala’s comics have been penned by a South Asian woman. (Hasan Minhaj, who penned a portion of “Ms. Marvel” #31, was the first South Asian man.)
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ahmed stated, “when Sana and Willow announced Ms. Marvel, I was just so stunned. My heart soars for all the kids who will have Ms. Marvel comics as part of their childhood. For me, what’s cool about her is that she’s a girl like all the other girls. She’s balancing all this stuff: parental expectations – which I can 100 percent relate to now even in adulthood – plus school, crushes, and then this extraordinary side job. I feel so much that that is teen life, where you’re struggling to balance all those things and find your voice and where you fit in.”
Ahmed was pressed by EW as to whether the series will retcon the source of the character’s shapeshifting abilities to be something other than Terrigenesis: she replied, “I don’t want to give any spoilers, but there are gonna be some questions that arise about the source of her powers and what that means.”
“Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit” #1’s release on September 15 will coincide with Nadia Shammas and Nabi H. Ali’s original graphic novel “Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thin” (due out September 7), and the character’s live-action debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Ms. Marvel, premiering on Disney+ this fall. In the meantime, Kamala will continue to make regular appearances in the pages of Danny Lore and Luciano Vecchio’s “Champions.”
