Ms. Marvel Returns as Muslim Teen

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Updated Apr. 17, 2017 5:44PM EDT / Published Nov. 06, 2013 7:21AM EST

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Ms. Marvel is back, but she doesn’t look like your mom’s comic-book heroine. Karmala Khan will be the new Ms. Marvel, the comic-book series announced on Tuesday. Instead of being the Ms. Marvel of the 1960s (blonde, blue-eyed former U.S. Air Force officer), Khan is the 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants who can shrink and grow her body to fit different shapes. Khan is the first Muslim lead character in a Marvel comic-book series, and the series’s new writers and editors say they hope she will shed stereotypes.

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Ms. Marvel Returns as Muslim Teen

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