Captain Mar-Vell

Okay.

And it is Captain Marvel, both the original Mar-Vell, once Gil Kane redesigned him with the new red and yellow suit.

But I also absolutely love the redesign that they did for Carol Danvers when she took the name Captain Marvel herself.

Clearly, when you look at the two side by side, you can see the lineage.

Carol's suit pays an awful lot of attention to all the details of Mar-Vell's suit.

Of course, she's still got that red sash.

I was going to say, she still has the sash.

you know like Don you had you have the ability to call back to the original Captain Marvel and Remember the stories you read those I didn't read them.

I mean, you know, I always knew Captain Marvel as Carol Danvers that was that was my Marvel and that is like 90% of people's Captain Marvel because What was what was the total time run of on Mar-Vell.

Does anybody actually know? I would love to look that up.

How many years did Mar-Vell carry the Captain Marvel title compared to how many years now Carol Danvers has carried it?

Well, one, the Captain Marvel comic from Marvel was kind of hard to find when I was a kid.

I mean, I kind of saw it here and there.

God, I should know this.

Her real name is Mar-Vell.

She's actually an alien.

[laughs] Okay.

concerned.

I reckon that the Mar-Vell franchise are probably after him to play the Thor character.

You know, big.

Blonde-haired, broad guy.

OK.

And the Kree with Mar-Vell had to have been pretty early, too.

Yeah, Kree were 1967, so they were a solid decade old by now.

And it's like the exact same concept, like two big empires in a war, right? Sort of? Yes.

The pilot in this plane is dead, but he finds his body and he checks his ID and he realizes that this man's name was Lawson.

Walter Lawson.

Walter Lawson.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But how gruesome, you know.

And also, does this ever play out? This is something I'm going to ask myself and then look forward to.

Certainly somebody knows Walter Lawson, and this has got to cause him problems down the road.

We talk all about Carol Danvers, how she was a character in the 1960s in the Marvel, Captain Marvel book.

She is an Air Force commander, like head of security, that kind of becomes kind of a comedy character, but also like the love interest of Mar-Vell, who has a human identity as Dr. Walter Lawson.

Now we see her in the mid-70s, initially written by Jerry Conway, but Claremont takes over this book as of issue number three and writes it concurrently with the X-Men.

And we've seen how when he writes a character, he loves to later bring them into the X-Men.

And she was Captain Marvel, or Ms. Marvel again for a little while.

But then she finally adopted Captain Marvel as an homage to Mar-Vell.

Right.

Which was played by Annette Bening in the movie.

That was another thing that people didn't like, was that she played Mar-Vell, who was obviously a man.

That's one of the things where I was going at, where they bend the gender... or when they make the women, the main characters and stuff, far too often, it's a knee-jerk reaction.

There's been very little that I have not liked, and truly enjoyed, that Marvel has put out.