Dani Moonstar

A Cheyenne mutant from Colorado, Danielle Moonstar manifested the terrifying ability to project visual illusions of people's deepest fears and desires. Professor X recruited her as a founding member of the New Mutants, where she learned to control and expand her psionic gifts.

Few characters from the Bronze Age have proven as enduringly vital as Dani Moonstar, who burst onto the Marvel scene in 1982's Marvel Graphic Novel #4 — a landmark debut crafted by the legendary team of Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod. Over an extraordinary 44-year publishing history spanning The New Mutants, New Mutants, and The Uncanny X-Men, Dani has grown from a fresh-faced new voice in the X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe into one of its most resilient figures, racking up 340 catalog appearances and 25 collector-recognized key issues along the way. She's kept remarkable company throughout — sharing pages with the likes of Sam Guthrie, Roberto Da Costa, and others who helped define a generation of Marvel storytelling. If you're tracing the rich lineage of the X-Men's world, Dani Moonstar is an essential thread running through decades of it.