BEGIN SLIDESHOW Marvel nixes Captain Marvel’s 40-year old origin story Marvel Comics is retconning the long-running Captain Marvel origin story. In a move that likely coincides with the more audience friendly take on the character set to hit theaters this Spring, the fourth issue of the “Life of Captain Marvel” series by Margaret Stohl, Carlos Pacheco and Erica D’Urso has revealed that the titular hero did not gain superpowers through exposure to an alien device via an accident related to the male Captain Marvel, as depicted in 1977’s Ms.