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Bobbi Morse

331 appearances · Bronze Age · 1971–2026 · 13 key issues
Who is Bobbi Morse?

Barbara "Bobbi" Morse began her Marvel career as a S.H.I.E.L.D. biochemist and covert operative known as Agent 19, eventually taking the costumed identity of Mockingbird. A peak-condition athlete, martial artist, and espionage expert, she wields signature battle staves and co-founded the West Coast Avengers alongside ex-husband Hawkeye.

Few characters can claim a Bronze Age debut and still be making waves well into the 2020s, but Bobbi Morse has earned every one of her 274 catalog appearances across more than five decades of Marvel storytelling. Born from the creative minds of Gerry Conway and Barry Smith in Astonishing Tales #6 (1971), she's grown into a figure whose footprint spans West Coast Avengers, New Avengers, and well beyond, sharing pages with some of Marvel's heaviest hitters — Hawkeye, Captain America, Iron Man, and Spider-Man among them. With 13 key-issue appearances flagging her as genuine collector currency, Bobbi is exactly the kind of character whose full history rewards the deep dive — a Bronze Age original who never stopped mattering.

Identity

Real name. Barbara "Bobbi" Morse

Powers. No innate superpowers; expert spy, espionage agent and biochemist; Olympic-level athlete and martial artist; uses battle staves; enhanced by a combination of the Super-Soldier Serum and Infinity Formula granting prolonged youth/durability

Affiliations. Avengers (West Coast Avengers founder), New Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D. (Agent 19), Agents of Wakanda, Force Works; partner/ex-wife of Hawkeye (Clint Barton)

★ First appearance
Astonishing Tales #6
Jun 1971

Trivia

  • Bobbi Morse debuted in the pages of a Man-Thing story as a research scientist entangled with Project: Gladiator — no costume, no codename, just hard science and intrigue, giving her origin the gritty feel of a biotech thriller long before she ever suited up as a hero.marvel.fandom.com
  • Brian Michael Bendis has written more of Bobbi Morse's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 33 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years — 1971–2023

Astonishing Tales #6 1971
Astonishing Tales #6
Marvel Super Action #1 1976
Marvel Super Action #1
Marvel Team-Up #95 1980
Marvel Team-Up #95
Secret Wars II #5 1985
Secret Wars II #5
The Avengers #300 1989
The Avengers #300
Slapstick #4 1993
Slapstick #4
Avengers #10 1998
Avengers #10
G.L.A. #4 2005
G.L.A. #4
Siege: X-Men #[nn] 2010
Siege: X-Men #[nn]
Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1 2011
Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1
S.H.I.E.L.D. #8 2015
S.H.I.E.L.D. #8
Captain America #2 2019
Captain America #2
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man #25 2023
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man #25

Appearances (1–150 of 331, oldest first)

Astonishing Tales (1970)
Marvel Super Action (1976)
#1
Planet of the Apes (1974)
Marvel Team-Up (1972)
#95
Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions (1982)
#1
Hawkeye (1983)
Fantastic Four (1961)
West Coast Avengers (1984)
G.I. Joe, a Real American Hero (1982)
Marvel Age Annual (1985)
Spécial Strange (1975)
Rom (1979)
Iron Man (1968)
The Transformers (1984)
Captain America (1968)
Secret Wars II (1985)
Ombrax-Saga (1986)
Marvel Graphic Novel: Emperor Doom - Starring the Mighty Avengers (1987)
The New Mutants (1983)
#48
The West Coast Avengers Annual (1986)
Mephisto vs. ... (1987)
#4
The Transformers: Headmasters (1987)
#3
Web of Spider-Man (1985)
#32
Solo Avengers (1987)
Comics Scene (1987)
Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. (1988)
#2
Fantastic Four Annual (1963)
#22
The Avengers (1963)
The Avengers Annual (1967)
Avengers Spotlight (1989)
Avengers West Coast (1989)
Black Widow The Coldest War (1990)
Marvel Illustrated: Swimsuit Issue (1991)
#1
Marvel Comics Presents (1988)
#87
Avengers West Coast Annual (1990)
#6
Marvel Super-Heroes (1990)
#9
The Incredible Hulk (1968)
The Many Armors of Iron Man (1992)
Slapstick (1992)
#4
Hellstorm: Prince of Lies (1993)
#3
Deathlok (1991)
#29
Marvel Exklusiv (1998)
#9
Avengers (1998)
Earth X (2000)
Hellcat (2000)
Marvel Heroes Hors Série (2001)
#7