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Marvel Comics' Captain Marvel is no stranger to change, evolving over time and getting higher, further, and faster in her trajectory to become one of the company's top heroes. But in 2026, Marvel Comics is looking to change her future by changing her past.

Scheduled to debut in April 2026, the five-issue series Captain Marvel: Dark Past by writer Paul Jenkins and artist Lucas Werneck is looks to ignite interest by writing about a hereto unknown "dark family secret" that upon its exposure, will thrust Carol Danvers to revisit her past in her first superhero identity, Ms. Marvel.

"Captain Marvel is such a great character who has also appeared as Ms. Marvel, Warbird and even Binary. With such a rich and complex past, under the guidance of so many amazing and talented writers, there is a ton of material for me to mine," Jenkins says in the announcement. "I hope to bring my brand of characterization and storytelling to this great character, to examine what makes Carol who she is, and perhaps even to bring out a new wrinkle or two."

Jenkins has become a defacto expert in characters with secretive pasts, as he's best known for co-creating the Sentry, and being a key part of a marketing ploy which falsely claimed the characters was an unpublished creation by Stan Lee and an artist later revealed to be completely fictional. 

In Captain Marvel: Dark Past, her secret is brought to the light by a new group called DNVR (is that short for Danvers?), and their reveal forces her "to question everything she thought she knew about the Danvers name!" As the Marvel description of the series continues. "Carol suspects that answers lie in an investigation she was forced to drop when she was a journalist, and as lost memories from her past as Ms. Marvel resurface, she’s faced with her toughest battle yet."

From the sounds of it, Captain Marvel: Dark Past could be about her parentage, which in comics had her biological mother being secretly a Kree secret agent. 

Captain Marvel: Dark Past #1 (of 5) goes on sale April 1.

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