Marvel is bringing back the comic book character Ms Marvel as a Muslim teen who lives with her Pakistani immigrant parents in Jersey City.

Ms Marvel is among the first female protagonists from Marvel and is one of Marvel Entertainment's ways to reflect diversity.

Named Kamala Khan, Ms Marvel deals with having superpowers, her family's expectations of her and adolescence, in general.

Marvel Entertainment editor Sana Amanat said that the Ms Marvel series can be described as "a desire to explore the Muslim-American diaspora from an authentic perspective."

Ms Marvel's writer G. Willow Wilson said that the series will bring to life what "real people could relate to, particularly young women."

According to IGN, the series will come out in February 2014.

The writer says Ms Marvel can grow her limbs or shrink them whenever she wills and eventually shape shift.

This is not the first time that a Muslim superhero is introduced by comic books though, because back in 2010, DC Comics came out with a young Algerian Muslim reared in Paris as Nightrunner.

Another Muslim woman superhero is the young Afghan who can control sand and dust in "X-Men" who is aptly called Dust.

Kamala Khan's Family

The Ms Marvel series will include Kamala Khan's family, of course, because this is the crux of many of Ms Marvel's adolescence-related predicaments.

Her father is named Yusuf and is shown to be wearing a suit. Her mother Disha dresses conservatively and dons a hijab. Kamala also has a friend named Bruno and a strange pet.

Comics and Society

Comic books have always been the very sensitive with the times. When Captain America came out. for example, it reflected America's cry for a new hero and new hope.

Black Panther is another memorable addition to the line up of comic book characters. Black Panther is the first dark-skinned character to have its own series.

With the growing diversity in America and other parts of the world, comic books are now adding new characters that reflect these changes.

Last fall, DC Comics relaunched "Green Lantern" focusing on Geoff Johns' Lebanese ancestry including his experience growing up in Detroit.

According to Axel Alonso, Marvel's Editor-in-Chief, the character Ms Marvel "is not unlike Peter Parker." He adds that Ms Marvel is a 16-year-old girl growing up in the suburbs and, much like every other girl her age, "is trying to figure out who she is and trying to forge an identity."