Marvel Exec Suggests Comic Sales Fell Because Readers 'Didn't Want Female Characters'

Over the past few years, the elite club of iconic comic superheroes went from being exclusively white and male ― Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, all the mans ― to incorporating women and people of color into its super-roster. For example, a Pakistani-American teenager named Kamala Khanbecame the new Ms. Marvel, and a black science prodigy namedRiri Williams made her own Iron Man suit, taking up the Ironheart mantle. Bad Feministauthor Roxanne Gay became the first black woman to write...