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Cover: John Romita Jr. & Joe Sinnott

Ms. Marvel #13

Name: Ms. Marvel #13
Brand: Marvel
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Jan 1978 · Marvel · 0.35 USD

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“Homecoming!”

★ 1st appearance — Marie Danvers★ 1st appearance — Joseph Danvers Sr.

About this Issue

Ms. Marvel #13 resolves one of the defining anxieties of Carol Danvers's early solo run: for the first time, her human and Kree personalities are explicitly shown to have fully merged, giving Carol conscious, on-demand control over her Ms. Marvel identity rather than the involuntary switching that had plagued her since issue #1. The issue also introduces the entire Danvers family — Joe and Marie Danvers — for the first time, grounding a character who had previously existed almost without domestic roots and opening the door for Claremont's Boston-set story arc that would run into the following issues. Sapper and Golden-Blade, the alien robot antagonists who make their debut here, are a rare example of Bronze Age one-off foes who were later brought back decades later (in Iron Man's 1999–2000 run) and given a fully fleshed-out origin, making this issue a quiet connective thread across two very different Marvel eras.

writer Chris Claremont · artist Jim Mooney · artist, inker Joe Sinnott · colorist Françoise Mouly · letterer Gaspar Saladino · letterer Pete Iro · cover John Romita Jr., Joe Sinnott

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History

Published with a January 1978 cover date (released late 1977), the issue was written by Chris Claremont — who was by this point in the middle of his transformative run on Uncanny X-Men — and drawn by veteran penciller Jim Mooney with inks by Joe Sinnott, under editor Archie Goodwin. The cover was supplied by Gil Kane and Joe Sinnott, a creative pairing common across Marvel's Bronze Age output. A detail disclosed in the letters page of Ms. Marvel #18 reveals that the two alien robot characters — Sapper and Golden-Blade — were visually designed by John Byrne, who was then collaborating closely with Claremont on X-Men, suggesting a cross-title creative relationship that left a small but traceable mark on this issue's production.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of Joe Danvers (Carol's father, a Boston construction worker) and Marie Danvers (Carol's mother), the first time Carol's immediate family had ever been depicted in the Marvel universe.
First appearance of Sapper (an energy-absorbing alien cyborg) and Golden-Blade, the two robot antagonists who battle Ms. Marvel aboard the USS Constitution in Boston Harbor.
First appearance of Dr. Michael Barnett in a formal supporting role; the issue establishes his romantic relationship with Carol Danvers, notable because Barnett had previously served as her psychiatrist.
A key character-development milestone: a flashback recap confirms that Carol's exposure to the Scarlet Scarab has permanently synchronized her human and Kree selves, allowing her to transform into Ms. Marvel at will — resolving the involuntary dual-identity problem that had defined her series from issue #1.
Written by Chris Claremont with interior art by Jim Mooney (breakdowns) and Joe Sinnott (finished art); cover by Gil Kane and Joe Sinnott; edited by Archie Goodwin; colored by Françoise Mouly.
Per the letters page of Ms. Marvel #18, the visual designs for Sapper and Golden-Blade were created by John Byrne, who contributed the character concepts even though he did not draw the issue itself.
Hellfire, Hydron, and Magnum (the Elementals) and Hecate appear only in flashback/recap, bridging the prior three-issue Elementals arc (issues #11–12) into this new Boston-set storyline.
Reprinted in Ms. Marvel Epic Collection Vol. 1: This Woman, This Warrior (2019), which collected Ms. Marvel (1977) #1–14 alongside Marvel Team-Up #61–62 and Defenders #57.