Kamala Khan

Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, from 2014 Kamala Khan, a teenage Pakistani American from Jersey City, was the first Muslim character to headline a Marvel comic, and her series proved a new hero could build a real readership from scratch. Wilson writes family, faith and fan fiction with a light touch, and Alphona fills the margins with jokes. The first collection, No Normal, won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story and made The New York Times bestseller list. It is the easiest modern Marvel book to give a teenager, and adults who loved Spider-Man at fifteen will recognize it at once.