11 Facts About Marvel’s Moon Girl That Will Unlock Your Inner Genius

Moon Girl is an outlier in an industry that has been dominated by the same collection of characters for decades. In comic books, it has become a rarity that any newly-created characters have gained traction with fans. Most of the world’s favorite superheroes have been around since before the bulk of their fanbase was even born. And even then, the majority of the most popular rookie heroes are carbon copies of more established characters, such as the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man. Moon Girl gained her leg up in the competitive industry thanks to a long-forgotten series, Jack Kirby’s “Devil Dinosaur,” featuring his best buddy, Moon-Boy.

Lunella Lafayette owes her establishment to her primal co-star, who has been around since the late 1970s. Devil Dinosaur was a favorite character of Marvel editor Mark Paniccia, who had long wanted to bring the Jurassic character out of Dinosaur World and into the modern world of the Marvel Comics universe, Earth-616. He pitched his idea to writers Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder, and the pair quickly ran with his vision of making a follow-up to Devil Dinosaur’s lore. “There’s been a lot of cool, small Devil Dinosaur stories since the Jack Kirby series ended,” said Montclare in an interview with Gizmodo. “But in a lot of ways, this is a direct sequel to the Kirby stuff, because we’re pulling him from time, right from Kirby’s world into our world. And that does involve Moon-Boy, and some of the other Kirby original characters, including the Killer-Folk.”

Moon Girl is an outlier in an industry that has been dominated by the same collection of characters for decades. In comic books, it has become a rarity that any newly-created characters have gained traction with fans. Most of the world’s favorite superheroes have been around since before the bulk of their fanbase was even born. And even then, the majority of the most popular rookie heroes are carbon copies of more established characters, such as the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man. Moon Girl gained her leg up in the competitive industry thanks to a long-forgotten series, Jack Kirby’s “Devil Dinosaur,” featuring his best buddy, Moon-Boy.

Lunella Lafayette owes her establishment to her primal co-star, who has been around since the late 1970s. Devil Dinosaur was a favorite character of Marvel editor Mark Paniccia, who had long wanted to bring the Jurassic character out of Dinosaur World and into the modern world of the Marvel Comics universe, Earth-616. He pitched his idea to writers Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder, and the pair quickly ran with his vision of making a follow-up to Devil Dinosaur’s lore. “There’s been a lot of cool, small Devil Dinosaur stories since the Jack Kirby series ended,” said Montclare in an interview with Gizmodo. “But in a lot of ways, this is a direct sequel to the Kirby stuff, because we’re pulling him from time, right from Kirby’s world into our world. And that does involve Moon-Boy, and some of the other Kirby original characters, including the Killer-Folk.”