Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1

Jan 2016 · Marvel · 3.99 USD

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“BFF Part 1: Repeat After Me”

★ 1st appearance — Lunella Lafayette★ 1st appearance — Moon Girl

About this Issue

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 (cover-dated January 2016, released November 25, 2015) marks the debut of Lunella Lafayette — a nine-year-old Haitian-American girl from New York's Lower East Side who would go on to be canonically established as the smartest person in the entire Marvel Universe, surpassing Reed Richards, Tony Stark, and even Amadeus Cho. As one of the few Marvel ongoing series headlined by a young Black girl protagonist, the book represented a meaningful shift in Marvel's diversity-focused 'All-New, All-Different' initiative, and it earned the 2016 Glyph Comics Award for Best Female Character — a prize recognizing outstanding comics made by, for, and about people of color. The series also functions as the first true narrative sequel to Jack Kirby's original nine-issue Devil Dinosaur run from 1978, directly picking up the Kirby mythology of the Killer-Folk and the Nightstone and transporting Devil Dinosaur into the modern Marvel Universe. Lunella's cultural resonance was eventually confirmed by a two-season Disney Channel animated adaptation (2023–2025) and a 10th Anniversary Special in 2025, cementing her place as one of Marvel's most successful character launches of the 2010s.

writer Brandon Montclare · writer Amy Reeder · artist, inker Natacha Bustos · colorist Tamra Bonvillain · letterer Travis Lanham · letterer Virtual Calligraphy · cover Amy Reeder

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History

The series was conceived around 2014 by writers Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder — who had previously collaborated on Rocket Girl at Image Comics — following conversations with Marvel editors Mark Paniccia and Emily Shaw. Paniccia, a longtime fan of Kirby's Devil Dinosaur, proposed transporting the character to the present day and pairing him with a young female counterpart to Moon-Boy, deliberately pivoting away from a 'cape-and-tights superhero' archetype toward something rooted in intellect and invention. Reeder also served as the series' character designer and cover artist for the opening arc, visually establishing Lunella's distinctive roller-skate shoes, boxing headgear, and utility-belt aesthetic. Co-writer Amy Reeder departed after issue #6, leaving Montclare as sole writer for the remaining 41 issues of the 47-issue run, with artist Natacha Bustos anchoring the visual style through the first two arcs before guest artists rotated in.

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First appearance of Lunella Lafayette / Moon Girl (Earth-616), a nine-year-old NuHuman (Human/Inhuman hybrid) and preteen super-genius from Manhattan's Lower East Side.
First appearances of supporting cast including Lunella's parents Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette, her unnamed teacher Ms. Dominguez, and her school P.S. 20 Anna Silver — all debuting in this issue.
The issue is a direct sequel to Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur #1–9 (1978): the Killer-Folk and the Nightstone (here identified as a Kree Omni-Wave Projector) carry over directly from Kirby's original Earth-78411 continuity, with Moon-Boy's death serving as the catalyst that sends Devil Dinosaur through a time vortex to present-day New York.
Written by Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder; interior art by Natacha Bustos; cover art by Amy Reeder. The story arc title for issues #1–6 is 'BFF.'
Released November 25, 2015 with a January 2016 cover date as part of Marvel's 'All-New, All-Different Marvel' publishing initiative; the series ran for 47 issues through September 2019.
The series won the 2016 Glyph Comics Award for Best Female Character — an award honoring comics made by, for, and about people of color.
Issue #1 was reprinted in the Timely Comics: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Vol 1 #1 anthology (collecting issues #1–3) and collected in the trade paperback Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Vol. 1: BFF (released June 22, 2016).
The animated television adaptation — Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, starring Diamond White (Lunella) and Fred Tatasciore (Devil Dinosaur) and produced with involvement from Laurence Fishburne — aired on Disney Channel for two seasons, February 2023 to March 2025.