J.G. Jones

Captain Marvel was dead, to begin with. More than one Captain Marvel, if we want to be perfectly accurate about it. By 2012, the Marvel Comics hero that bore the company name had been relaunched in no fewer than six different series, and seen a total of three separate characters take on the name. More than three decades in, it seemed increasingly that Captain Marvel was the flagship character who just couldn’t manage to hoist a flag—and the Marvel powers that be were determined to change things once and for all.What…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosA new investigation from the Hollywood Reporter has uncovered the kind of compensation that character creators are receiving from Marvel, and the figures are staggeringly low—with the co-creator of Black Widow’s breakout character Yelena Belova, played by Florence Pugh, serving as just one example.Citing the legalese hidden in the fine print of the “Special Character Contracts” that writers and artists sign when creating a new character for Marvel, the trade notes that “When she co-created…