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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 (151–300 of 331, oldest first)

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Avengers 2004 (2004)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Book of the Dead 2004 (2004)
G.L.A. (2005)
#4
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Horror 2005 (2005)
She-Hulk (2005)
Essential Silver Surfer (1998)
#2
Avengers Classic (2007)
#1
House of M: Avengers (2008)
#3
Avengers: The Initiative (2007)
Secret Invasion (2009)
Dark Reign: New Nation (2009)
#1
Avengers: Hawkeye (2009)
The Mighty Avengers (2007)
#22
Marvels: Eye of the Camera (2009)
Captain America (2005)
Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Utopia (2009)
#1
Dark Avengers (2009)
#5
War Machine (2009)
New Avengers: The Reunion (2009)
Avengers / X-Men: Utopia (2009)
#1
Dark Reign: The List - Avengers (2009)
#1
Avengers Assemble (2010)
New Avengers Annual (2006)
#3
Black Widow: Deadly Origin (2010)
#3
Iron Man: I Am Iron Man (2010)
Siege (2010)
Avengers: West Coast Avengers Assemble (2010)
New Avengers Finale (2010)
#1
Siege: Embedded (2010)
#4
Siege: X-Men (2010)
Siege: Avengers - The Initiative (2010)
X-Men: Inferno Crossovers (2010)
Marvel Icons (2005)
Avengers Academy (2011)
#1
Chaos War: Dead Avengers (2011)
#1
New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis (2011)
Hawkeye & Mockingbird: Ghosts (2011)
What If? Dark Reign (2011)
#1
Klaws of the Panther (2010)
#4
Widowmaker (2011)
Avengers Prime (2010)
#5
Thunderbolts: Cage (2011)
100% Marvel : Avengers - Réunion (2011)
Chaos War: Avengers (2011)
Spider-Man: Matters of Life and Death (2011)
Fear Itself (2011)
Avengers: West Coast Avengers - Family Ties (2011)
Spider-Man: Am I an Avenger? (2011)
Secret Avengers (2010)
Evolutionary War Omnibus (2011)
FF (2011)
#11
Avengers: West Coast Avengers - Sins of the Past (2011)
Avengers: Solo Avengers Classic (2012)
#1
Avengers: West Coast Avengers - Lost in Space-Time (2012)
Avengers Assemble: An Oral History of Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2012)
Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis: Heroic Age (2012)
Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis (2011)
#3
Avengers: The Contest (2012)
Marvel Universe Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2012)
#1
Fear Itself: The Fearless (2012)
Avengers: West Coast Avengers - Zodiac Attack (2012)
Marvel Série I (2012)
#12
Avenging Spider-Man (2012)
#1
A+X (2013)
#1
West Coast Avengers Omnibus (2013)
Kronos le naufragé de l'espace-temps (2015)
Skrulls Must Die! - The Complete Skrull Kill Krew (2015)
S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015)
#8
Man-Thing by Steve Gerber: The Complete Collection (2015)
#1
Marvel Classic (2015)
Hawkeye (2013)
#2
Silk (2016)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016)
Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide (2016)
#1
The Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide (2016)
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl & the Great Lakes Avengers (2016)
Spider-Women (2016)
Jessica Jones: Avenger (2016)
Spider-Gwen (2016)
#3
Avengers: The Initiative - The Complete Collection (2017)
#1
Unstoppable Wasp (2017)
#1
Monsters Unleashed (2017)
#2
Secret Empire Prelude (2017)
Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015)
#22
Captain America: Secret Empire (2017)
Secret Warriors (2017)
#1
Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis: The Complete Collection (2017)
#2
Secret Empire (2017)
Avengers Epic Collection (2013)
#21
Spider-Man / Deadpool (2016)
#30
Avengers by Jonathan Hickman: The Complete Collection (2020)
#3
Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda (2019)
#7
Empyre: Avengers (2020)
#1
Black Widow Epic Collection (2019)
#2
2020 Force Works (2020)
#3