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Marvel Courts Controversy Again by Casting Woman in Typically Male ‘Fantastic Four’ Role

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Marvel and Disney are once again courting controversy by casting a female actress to take on the typically male “Fantastic Four” role of the Silver Surfer in the upcoming reboot.

Actress Julia Garner has been picked to play a female version of the iconic comic book character and Herald of Galactus, Deadline magazine reported. Sources told the outlet that the Emmy-winning “Ozark” star will play the Shalla-Bal version of the Silver Surfer from the comics.

Bounding Into Comics reported that Marvel Studios dived deep into the comic book lore to find justification to not use the Norrin-Radd version of the comic book hero played by a male.

In 1968, in an issue titled “Silver Surfer Vol. 1,” Shalla-Bal is depicted as the Silver Surfer’s love interest. For the next fifty years, her role is just that, a supporting one. Then in 1997, her character is part of the final two issues of “Earth X” when she’s briefly granted her lover’s super powers so she could stop an invading force, the Blaze noted.

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Marvel to Introduce Gay Spider-Man

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Marvel Comics will introduce a variant character of a gay Spider-Man with a “fearlessly femme” identity.

The writer of one of the Spider-Man comics revealed the name of the gay Spider-Man and some character costume designs on his Twitter account Thursday.

“Something I realized immediately when conceiving Web-Weaver is that he can’t — and shouldn’t — represent ALL gay men. No single character can,” said Steve Foxe in the tweet.

“His fearlessly femme identity is central to who he is, but it’s not the STORY— which you can experience for yourself in September!” he added.

Foxe later protected his tweets so that only his followers could access them. (Read more from “Marvel to Introduce Gay Spider-Man” HERE)

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