10 Iconic DC/Marvel Characters Who Originated Outside The Comics
8. Firestar
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends was an animated series that debuted on NBC in September 1981. The show starred three main characters: Spider-Man, Bobby Drake, aka Iceman (of X-Men fame), and a newcomer to the Marvel lineup: Angelica Jones, aka Firestar.
Firestar would make her very first appearance in a Marvel comic book a few months later in December 1981 in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends #1, which was a one-shot tie-in for the TV series. In May 1985, Firestar would finally debut in the official Marvel comics continuity on the pages of Uncanny X-Men #193.
Firestar would then go on to get her own comic mini-series in 1986, become a recurring character in the X-Men lineup (most notably in Amazing X-Men), become a founding member of the New Warriors, and even star in a one-shot issue during the Women of Marvel spotlight in 2010, which told her story of being a breast cancer survivor.
In other words, Angelica Jones has certainly come a long way from her Saturday morning cartoon origins.