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Power Princess

Power Princess

63 appearances Β· Bronze Age Β· 1985–2024 Β· 2 key issues
Who is Power Princess?

Princess Zarda is a warrior from Utopia Isle on Earth-712, an isolated island nation whose people granted her extraordinary strength, speed, and effective immortality. She left her homeland to join the outside world, becoming a founding member of that reality's premier super-team, the Squadron Supreme.

Few characters carry the weight of an entire alternate reality on their shoulders quite like Power Princess, who made her mark on the Marvel Universe when she debuted in Marvel Age Annual #1 in 1985, brought to life by a stellar creative team including Jim Shooter, Kurt Busiek, James Fry, and Al Milgrom. A Bronze Age creation with remarkable staying power, she's logged nearly four decades of appearances β€” stretching all the way to 2024 β€” across titles like Squadron Supreme, Quasar, and Exiles, keeping formidable company alongside the likes of Hyperion, Doctor Spectrum, and the Whizzer. With two key-issue appearances to her name and 57 catalog entries, she's no footnote β€” she's a cornerstone of Marvel's Squadron Supreme mythology, the kind of character that rewards readers who dig deeper into the publisher's rich tradition of world-building. If you're ready to explore corners of the Marvel cosmos that feel both familiar and thrillingly strange, Power Princess is absolutely worth your time.

Identity

Real name. Princess Zarda (Zarda Shelton)

Powers. Superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, durability, and reflexes; flight; extended longevity (effective immortality); skilled hand-to-hand and armed combatant.

Teams & affiliations
ExilesTimebreakers
β˜… First appearance
The Defenders #112
Oct 1982

Trivia

  • Mark Gruenwald has written more of Power Princess's comics than any other writer in our catalog β€” 26 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years β€” 1985–2023

Squadron Supreme #1 1985
Squadron Supreme #1
The Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe #[nn] 1989
The Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe #[nn]
Quasar #19 1991
Quasar #19
Starblast #1 1994
Starblast #1
Avengers #5 1998
Avengers #5
Avengers Assemble #1 2004
Avengers Assemble #1
Exiles #77 2006
Exiles #77
Ultimate Power #[nn] 2008
Ultimate Power #[nn]
Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus #[nn] 2014
Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus #[nn]
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #10 2021
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #10
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man #25 2023
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man #25

Appearances

Marvel Age Annual (1985)
#1
Squadron Supreme (1985)
Ombrax-Saga (1986)
The West Coast Avengers Annual (1986)
#4
The Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe (1989)
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition (1990)
#28
Starblast (1994)
#1
Siren (1995)
#2
The Phoenix Resurrection: Genesis (1995)
#1
Avengers (1998)
Squadron Supreme: New World Order (1998)
#1
Avengers / Squadron Supreme '98 (1998)
Thor (1999)
Supreme Power (2003)
Avengers Assemble (2004)
#1
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005 (2005)
She-Hulk (2005)
Exiles (2001)
Ultimate Power (2006)
Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem (2009)
#2
Ultimatum: Requiem (2010)
Exiles: Ultimate Collection (2009)
#5
Squadron Supreme by Mark Gruenwald Omnibus (2010)
Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus (2014)
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (2003)
#10
Hulk: Maestro by Peter David Omnibus (2023)
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man (2003)
#25
Venomverse Reborn (2024)
#4
Venomverse Reborn - Les cinq questions (2025)
Secret Wars II (1986)
#60