Cool Cartoon Girls From The 80s - Day Six - Firestar

 

 

One of the series' main characters, Firestar was created specifically for this series when the Human Torch was unavailable (due to licensing issues). The original plan was for Spider-Man to have fire and ice based teammates, so Angelica Jones/Firestar was created. Her pre-production names included Heatwave, Starblaze, and Firefly.

Firestar makes her debut in Marvel's mainstream comic book universe in Uncanny X-Men #193 (May 1985). She appears as a member of the Hellions, a group of teenage mutants who functioned as rivals to the New Mutants (a similar group under the tutelage of Charles Xavier).

 

 

Angelica 'Angel' Jones, also known as Firestar, is a fictional character from Marvel comics. She made her debut as one of the main characters in the early 1980s animated TV show, Spider Man and His Amazing Friends. She is a mutant with the ability to generate microwave radiation and manipulate heat. She was shunned by her peers as a child due to her mutant abilities and was often called "Angelica Jinx" because her powers brought misfortune among her classmates. She then learned to better control her powers, although she tried to keep it a secret from her father.

 

 
It was not until high school that she caught the attention of the X-Men, and became a member of that team.