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The Evolution of the Female Action Figure: A Journey from Doll to HeroMain MenuThe Evolution of the Female Action FigureBut First, A VideoOrigins: The History of DollsIndustrialization: Dolls to FiguresAction figures: An Evolution of female characters.Disney Princess DollsBarbie BeginsVirtual DollsOnline doll and action figure websitesBarbie In A New EraAction Figures at The Museum of the Moving ImageResources and BibliographySophia Weiss3c76e92de54c7d0154f75aed19f8b4f70e4c4fe1Sophia, Paige, Maddie and Xiangyuan
Miss Marvel
12016-04-17T14:59:01-07:00Xiangyuan Hang93fd0eb353b1ff24eb441e543a2fd1b4571a66ee912991960s First Action Figure, (Super Masculine)gallery2016-04-17T18:24:34-07:00Sophia Weiss3c76e92de54c7d0154f75aed19f8b4f70e4c4fe1Ms. Marvel is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in comic bookspublished by Marvel Comics. The character was originally conceived as a female counterpart to Captain Marvel. Like Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel title gain their powers through technology or genetics. Marvel has published four ongoing comic series titled Ms. Marvel, with the first two starring Carol Danvers, and the third and fourth starring Kamala Khan. When Carol Danvers, the first character to use the moniker Ms. Marvel, first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #13 in March 1968, she meant so much more than a simple action figure. That was the first female action figure in the history, and a masculine one, symbolizing anther important and visual step toward gender equality.
