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Marville (comics)
Marville is a seven-issue Marvel Comics satirical series (2002-2003) written by Marvel president Bill Jemas for the U-Decide sales contest against Peter David's Captain Marvel; starring KalAOL, Ted Turner's son, it is known as one of Marvel's worst-reviewed comics.
Mary Marvel
Mary Marvel (Mary Batson/Bromfield), Fawcett-created 1942 superheroine by Otto Binder and Marc Swayze, twin/foster sister of Shazam; first appeared Captain Marvel Adventures #18, had her own 1945-1948 series, later DC's Lady Shazam.
Mary Worth
Mary Worth is an American newspaper comic strip debuting 1938 as Mary Worth's Family, a soap-opera strip about a widowed adviser in Santa Royale; disputed continuation of Martha Orr's 1934 Apple Mary; written by Karen Moy, drawn by June Brigman.
Max Mercury
Max Mercury (Max Crandall), originally Quicksilver of Quality Comics (National Comics #5, 1940), is a DC speedster revived by Mark Waid in Flash #76 (1993); mentor to Impulse and explainer of the Speed Force.
Megatokyo
Megatokyo (メガトーキョー) is a long-running English-language webcomic created in August 2000 by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston about two stranded American otaku in Tokyo; manga-styled, print-published by Ironcat, Dark Horse, and DC's CMX, and still updating.
Metabarons
Metabarons (La Caste des Méta-Barons), also The Metabarons First Cycle, is a space-opera comic by Jodorowsky and Giménez (1992-2003, Les Humanoïdes Associés), a spin-off of The Incal about a warrior dynasty whose heirs kill their fathers.
Michel Vaillant
Michel Vaillant is a long-running French motor-racing comic series created by Jean Graton in 1957 for Tintin, chronicling champion driver Michel Vaillant and the family Vaillante firm; rebooted in 2012 under Philippe Graton.
Mike Grell
Mike Grell (born 1947, Iron Mountain, Michigan) is an American comic book writer-artist, creator of The Warlord, Starslayer, Jon Sable Freelance, and the acclaimed 1987 Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters.
Mister Mind
Mister Mind (Mr. Mind, Maxivermis Mind) is a tiny telepathic alien worm supervillain created by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck in 1943, leader of the Monster Society of Evil and a recurring Shazam/Captain Marvel enemy.
Moa Romanova
Moa Romanova, Swedish cartoonist and painter born 1992, debut graphic memoir Alltid fucka upp (Goblin Girl, 2018), Eisner Award 2021; later On Tour, På glid, and Buff Soul (2025).
Mobius M. Mobius
Mobius M. Mobius is a Marvel Comics TVA bureaucrat created by Walt Simonson, debuting in Fantastic Four #353 (1991) and modeled on editor Mark Gruenwald; Owen Wilson plays a TV-series version who is a variant of jet-ski salesman Don.
Monica Rambeau
Monica Rambeau, also known as Captain Marvel, Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum, is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Roger Stern and John Romita Jr. in 1982 who can transform into any electromagnetic energy form and led the Avengers.
Monstress (comics)
Monstress is an ongoing Image Comics dark steampunk fantasy by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, debuting November 2015. It follows Maika Halfwolf, linked to an Old God, in an alternate 1900s Asia; winner of 2018 Eisner Awards and the 2017 Hugo for Best Graphic Story.
Murray Ball
Murray Hone Ball (1939–2017), New Zealand cartoonist, creator of Footrot Flats, Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero, Bruce the Barbarian, and All the King's Comrades; his 1986 film was New Zealand's first animated feature.
Nabu (DC Comics)
Nabu the Wise, DC Comics Lord of Order created by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman (More Fun Comics #67, 1941), whose spirit in the Helmet of Fate possesses wearers, turning them into Doctor Fate, notably Kent Nelson.
Nagano (illustrator)
Nagano (ナガノ), born 1988, is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist, creator of Chiikawa (なんか小さくてかわいいやつ) and Nagano's Bear; LINE sticker origins, Kodansha publication, 2022 TV anime, 2024 Noma award. Distinct from Nagano Noriko and photographer Nagano Shigeichi.
Nancy (comic strip)
Nancy is an American comic strip about a mischievous eight-year-old girl with a red hair bow, her Aunt Fritzi, and best friend Sluggo, running since 1922.
Naoko Takeuchi (武内直子)
Naoko Takeuchi (武内直子), born 1967 in Kofu, Japan, is the manga artist behind Sailor Moon and Codename: Sailor V; a former pharmacist, Kodansha Manga Award winner, and wife of Yoshihiro Togashi.
Nate Grey
Nate Grey, aka X-Man, is a Marvel Comics Omega-level mutant created by Mister Sinister from Cyclops and Jean Grey's DNA in the Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295); an alternate Cable who debuted in X-Man #1 (March 1995) and later created the Age of X-Man.
National Cartoonists Society
National Cartoonists Society (NCS), professional cartoonists' organization founded March 1, 1946 in New York; Rube Goldberg first president; bestows the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year; over 500 members worldwide.
Neal Adams
Neal Adams (1941–2022), American comic book artist for DC and Marvel, also known for Continuity Associates. Redefined Batman, Green Lantern/Green Arrow, and the X-Men with realistic art; co-created Ra's al Ghul, Man-Bat, John Stewart; led creators' rights advocacy.
Ned Leeds
Ned Leeds (Edward Leeds) is a Marvel Comics Daily Bugle reporter created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #18 (1964); revealed as a brainwashed Hobgoblin stand-in for Roderick Kingsley, and the name of Peter Parker's MCU best friend played by Jacob Batalon.
Nico Minoru
Nico Minoru, alias Sister Grimm, is a Marvel Comics teenage sorceress from Runaways, created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona. She leads the Runaways and wields the blood-magic Staff of One, which casts each spell only once.
Nightshade (DC Comics)
Nightshade (Eve Eden) is a DC Comics superheroine created by David Kaler and Steve Ditko, debuting in Charlton's Captain Atom #82 (1966). A shadow-manipulating princess of the Land of Nightshades, she joined the Suicide Squad and Shadowpact and inspired Watchmen's Silk Spectre.
Nova (Richard Rider)
Nova (Richard Rider) is a Marvel Comics cosmic superhero created by Marv Wolfman, debuting in Nova #1 (September 1976). A dying Nova Centurion, Rhomann Dey, gave Rider the Nova Force; he joined the New Warriors, led the Annihilation era, and is slated for an MCU film.
Obelix
Obelix (Obélix) is the huge, superhumanly strong Gaul of the Asterix comics created by Goscinny and Uderzo in 1959 for Pilote, permanently strong from a childhood magic-potion fall, fond of boars and menhirs, owner of Dogmatix.
Olive Byrne
Olive Byrne (Olive Richard), 1904-1990, American Family Circle writer, niece of Margaret Sanger, and domestic partner of William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston; her bracelets and feminist family inspired Wonder Woman.
Omega-level mutants
Omega-level mutants are Marvel Comics' highest mutant power classification, defined in House of X #1 (2019) as a dominant power with an undefinable upper limit; the issue listed 14 known omega-level mutants including Jean Grey, Magneto, Storm, and Iceman.
Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men
Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men is the penultimate (11th of 12) story arc of Garth Ennis's comic The Boys, six issues (#60-65) by Dynamite in 2011-2012, art by Russ Braun; its title echoes Tenpole Tudor's 1981 song and a 2020 TV episode.
Paperinik
Paperinik (Duck Avenger, Superduck, Phantomias, Fantomiald) is Donald Duck's superhero alter ego created in Italy in 1969 by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi in Topolino, evolving from prankish antihero to the 1990s sci-fi PK reboot.