In the wake of October’s Susan G. Komen Foundation-branded pink variant covers, rumors began to swirl that Marvel Comics would take their relationship with the cancer research charity to the next level by actually infecting a Marvel character with cancer and dealing with the repercussions of that in-story.The going theory seemed to be that the character in question would be one of Marvel’s female heroes, with breast cancer being the obvious affliction, particularly because the publisher’s relationship with Komen would presumably provide them with some expert advice on keeping the story grounded in some semblance of medical reality.Names like She-Hulk, Invisible Woman and Captain Marvel were bandied about (although Captain Marvel seemed unlikely given that one of her supporting characters is already a cancer sufferer and twice in one book seemed like it would have been a difficult sell).
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