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Colleen Wing
Colleen Wing

Colleen Wing

169 appearances · Bronze Age · 1974–2025 · 7 key issues
Who is Colleen Wing?

Colleen Wing is a highly skilled martial artist and samurai swordswoman raised in Japan by her grandfather, a master sensei who trained her in the ways of the blade and hand-to-hand combat. She later became a private investigator in New York City, eventually teaming with Misty Knight as the Daughters of the Dragon.

Few characters introduced in the Bronze Age have proven as enduringly essential as Colleen Wing, who made her Marvel debut in 1974's Marvel Premiere #19, conjured by the creative team of Doug Moench and Larry Hama. Over five decades and 155 catalog appearances — seven of them collector-recognized key issues — she has woven herself into some of Marvel's richest street-level storytelling, turning up across Heroes for Hire, The Immortal Iron Fist, and Amazing Spider-Man. The company she keeps says everything: her pages pulse with the energy of Misty Knight, Iron Fist, Danny Rand, Luke Cage, and Spider-Man, placing her squarely at the beating heart of Marvel's gritty, neighborhood-scaled heroism. If you love that corner of the Marvel universe where loyalty, toughness, and camaraderie matter most, Colleen Wing is absolutely someone you need to know.

Identity

Real name. Colleen Wing

Teams & affiliations
Daughters of the DragonX-Men
★ First appearance
Marvel Premiere #19
Nov 1974

Trivia

  • Colleen Wing stood apart from early Marvel martial-arts heroines by pivoting into the role of private investigator and co-founding the Daughters of the Dragon alongside Misty Knight — a partnership so enduring it long outlasted her original supporting-character status.marvel.com

Top series

Covers through the years — 1974–2022

Marvel Premiere #19 1974
Marvel Premiere #19
The X-Men #118 1979
The X-Men #118
The Uncanny X-Men #159 1982
The Uncanny X-Men #159
Power Man and Iron Fist #117 1985
Power Man and Iron Fist #117
Marvel Comics Presents #42 1990
Marvel Comics Presents #42
Marvel Comics Presents #133 1993
Marvel Comics Presents #133
Iron Fist #1 1996
Iron Fist #1
Black Panther #38 2002
Black Panther #38
Daughters of the Dragon #1 2006
Daughters of the Dragon #1
Heroes for Hire #4 2007
Heroes for Hire #4
Fearless Defenders #6 2013
Fearless Defenders #6
Power Man & Iron Fist Epic Collection #1 2015
Power Man & Iron Fist Epic Collection #1
Amazing Spider-Man: Beyond #1 2021
Amazing Spider-Man: Beyond #1
Amazing Spider-Man #78.BEY 2022
Amazing Spider-Man #78.BEY

Appearances (1–150 of 169, oldest first)

Marvel Premiere (1972)
Iron Fist (1975)
The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1974)
Power Man (1974)
Titans (1976)
The X-Men (1963)
The Comics Journal (1977)
#50
Spécial Strange (1975)
Spider-Woman (1978)
#35
Power Man and Iron Fist (1981)
Bizarre Adventures (1981)
#25
Marvel Team-Up Annual (1976)
#4
The Uncanny X-Men (1981)
Superaventuras Marvel (1982)
Marvel Tales (1966)
Classic X-Men (1986)
Marvel Comics Presents (1988)
Black Panther (1998)
#38
Daughters of the Dragon: Deadly Hands Special (2006)
#1
Daughters of the Dragon (2006)
All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (2006)
#3
The Immortal Iron Fist (2007)
Avengers: The Initiative (2007)
#1
Avante, Vingadores! (2007)
#8
House of M: Avengers (2008)
#5
Immortal Iron Fist by Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker & David Aja Omnibus (2009)
Civil War: Heroes for Hire (2009)
Black Widow: Web of Intrigue (2010)
Shadowland (2010)
#3
Marvel Série I (2012)
#1
Wolverine: First Cuts (2013)
Fearless Defenders (2013)
Deadpool (2013)
#27
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (2014)
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu: Out of the Past (2014)
Power Man & Iron Fist Epic Collection (2015)
#1
Marvel's Mightiest Heroes (2014)
#52
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse - Dawn (2016)
Civil War II: Choosing Sides (2016)
Deadpool: Beginnings Omnibus (2017)
Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (2017)
Black Widow Epic Collection (2019)
#2
Amazing Spider-Man: Beyond (2021)
Ororo: Before the Storm (2021)
O Espetacular Homem-Aranha (2019)
#38
Devil's Reign: Superior Four (2022)
The Variants (2022)
Deadpool Epic Collection (2021)
#3
She-Hulk (2022)
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2023)
Amazing Spider-Man: Blood Hunt (2024)
Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar (2023)
#3
Miles Morales : Spider-Man (2023)
#3
Iron Fist 50th Anniversary Special (2024)
#1