Ashley Crawford

Ashley Crawford is the secret identity of Big Bertha, a superhumanly strong and durable member of the Great Lakes Avengers who can massively increase her body mass at will — while maintaining a career as a supermodel in her slender civilian form.

Debuting in The Avengers Annual #19 in 1990, Ashley Crawford is a Marvel character who emerged at the turn of the Copper/Modern Age and has quietly endured across more than three decades of comics. Most at home in the pages of Great Lakes Avengers, Avengers West Coast, and Avengers: The Initiative, Ashley keeps colorful company — sharing adventures with the likes of Big Bertha, Flatman, Doorman, Val Ventura, and Craig Hollis in some of Marvel's more delightfully offbeat corners of the universe. With 16 catalog appearances, a key issue to their name, and a publishing history stretching all the way to 2024, Ashley Crawford is exactly the kind of deep-cut Marvel figure that rewards the curious collector willing to dig past the A-listers.