Kamala Khan is a superheroine who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by editors Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker, writer G. Willow Wilson, and artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie, Kamala is Marvel's first major Muslim protagonist character and South Asian American personality with her own comic book. In the Marvel Universe, she is a teenage Pakistani-American from Jersey City, New Jersey with body-morphing abilities who discovers that she has Inhuman genes in the aftermath of the "Inhumanity" storyline. She assumes the mantle of Ms. Marvel from her idol, Carol Danvers, after Danvers becomes Captain Marvel.
Textless variant cover of Ms. Marvel #2 (March 2014). Art by Jorge Molina.
A statue of Kamala as Ms. Marvel at the Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes exhibition in Basel.
Kamala Khan dead in Spider-Man/Miles Morales' arms after being murdered by Zzzax, from Champions (2019) #3. Art by Steven Cummings.
Cover of The Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #1 with art by Eduard Petrovich.
Sana Amanat is an American comic book editor and an executive of production and development at Marvel Studios, having formerly been the Director of Content and Character Development at Marvel Comics. She has worked on comics such as Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, and Ms. Marvel. Amanat is known for co-creating Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel, the first Muslim-American superhero with a solo Marvel Comics series.
Amanat at the Women of Marvel panel during San Diego Comic-Con 2023.
Amanat presenting Barack Obama a copy of Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 in the Blue Room of the White House during a reception for Women's History Month in 2016