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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Secret Wars #3 (Jul 1984) |
| Created by | Jim Shooter Mike Zeck |
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| Alter ego | Marsha Rosenberg |
| Abilities | Pyrokinesis |
Volcana (Marsha Rosenberg) is a fictional character featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics who first appeared in Secret Wars #3 (July 1984). She was created by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck
Fictional character biography
Marsha Rosenberg is born in Denver, Colorado. Along with her friend Skeeter, Marsha is a normal human resident of Denver who is spirited away to the Beyonder's "Battleworld" during Marvel Comics' Secret Wars series. Lusting for power and respect, she and Skeeter agree to serve Doctor Doom, in exchange for super powers. Doctor Doom manages to figure out how to operate a machine utilizing alien technology, and uses it to grant her the ability to transform into a molten lava form, and fire powerful thermal energy blasts, hence her choosing the codename "Volcana". During the series, she romances the supervillain Molecule Man.
Later, during battles with the Wizard and Klaw she finds herself able to transform into volcanic rock (pumice) and volcanic ash forms. At that time she is briefly reunited with Molecule Man (whom she believed had been irrevocably merged into another "cosmic cube" along with the Beyonder ) and subsequently discovers that he'd secretly "willed" her a portion of his reality-warping power just before his supposed "death". It is this power that gives her the ability to manifest other forms at critical times when she needed them. After he has regained his power from her, she sees the darker side of his personality clearly for the first time and terminates their relationship. She is currently living in New York with her friend "Roxy."
Physical appearance
In her human form, the 6'5" tall Marsha has long black hair, is often mildly overweight, usually wears only her magenta-colored swimsuit (which is impervious to her volcanic powers) and she is always barefoot.
When ignited into her Volcana form, she blazes with white-hot nuclear intensity, at times setting aflame any surface beneath her bare feet.
In other media
Novels
Volcana appears in the novel Spider-Man/X-Men: Time's Arrow: The Present by Tom DeFalco and Adam-Troy Castro, in which she is hired by agents of Kang the Conqueror to fight Cable and the Beast. While she is not normally a mercenary, she needs the money to repair her car.
An alternate universe version of the character also appears in the book, as a member of a resistance movement against a fascist version of the X-Men.
Footnotes
- around Fantastic Four I#319
- Fantastic Four Annual#24/3