Hector Ayala: White Tiger Considered the first Latino, and Puerto Rican, Super Hero, Hector's trailblazer status inspired future generations of White Tigers. After finding the Tiger talismans from K'un-L'un, Ayala emerged on the scene as a Kung Fu vigilante.
Marvel's first Latino hero, Hector Ayala, debuted in 1975, after the success of “Black Panther.” Written by Bill Mantlo and drawn by legendary comic artist George Pérez, Ayala, known as White Tiger, was a Puerto Rican college student living in New York.
A character created for Marvel's Ultimate imprint, Miles was the first Afro Latino hero in the brand's history. Created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Picelli, Miles debuted in 2011 with the comic: “Ultimate Fallout #4.”
America Chavez has been described as one of Marvel's most notable and powerful female heroes, being labelled as the publisher's first Latin-American LGBT character to star in a comic book series as the eponymous character.
Set in Fictional Palmera City, Blue Beetle follows Mexican-American Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña), who just returned from college (he even shows his Gotham University hoodie in one scene), to his hometown. While trying to find a job, he accidentally gets in possession of an alien Scarab, which makes him a superhero.
DC Comics' hero Blue Beetle was created in 1939 by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski, then reimagined and given new identities several times over, until Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner redefined him as a Mexican American kid in 2006.
An engineer born to a Mexican mother and Irish father, Miguel first appeared in 1992's Spider-Man 2099 #1 with unique spider powers that included talons and fangs.
In 2014, a new character took on the Ghost Rider mantle: a Mexican-American resident of East Los Angeles named Roberto "Robbie" Reyes, who drives a black classic muscle car reminiscent of a modified 1969 Dodge Charger rather than a motorcycle.
The biracial teenage son of an African-American father and a Puerto Rican mother, Miles Morales is the second Spider-Man to appear in Ultimate Marvel, an imprint with a separate continuity from the mainstream Marvel Universe called the Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610), first appearing in Ultimate Fallout #4 (August 2011) ...
Victor Mancha is a Mexican-American android, best known as a member of the Runaways. The progeny of a human woman and Ultron, Victor betrayed his programming by being a dedicated teammate and hero.
Gomez made her professional debut in 2018 in Raven's Home. She starred in the Netflix comedy series The Baby-Sitters Club (2020), and gained wider recognition for playing America Chavez in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
His true identity is Miguel O'Hara, an Irish-Mexican geneticist living in Nueva York (a renamed New York City) in the year 2099 who attempts to re-create the abilities of the original Spider-Man in other people and later suffers a related accident that causes half of his DNA to be rewritten with a spider's genetic code ...
The character is the first to use the name White Tiger and was created by Bill Mantlo and George Pérez. A Puerto Rican, White Tiger was the first Latin American main character in the history of American comics and Marvel's first Hispanic superhero.
Blue Beetle may be the first major superhero film with a Latino lead, but its director, Ángel Manuel Soto, doesn't like to think of it that way. Nor does he like to think of himself as the man chosen to helm such a culturally-momentous moment.
With “Blue Beetle,” Soto aimed to tell a multigenerational Mexican American story that spans the many layers of the Mexican diaspora. He leaned heavily on the script of Dunnet-Alcocer, who was born in Mexico.
But the original Blue Beetle character, an archaeologist named Dan Garrett who made his debut in 1939, didn't have any Latino DNA. (The character does have some Holyoke roots: Holyoke Publishing Company printed comics about the Blue Beetle in the early 1940s.)
In 1966, the main character for the comic became Ted Kord (created by Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man), whose presence casts a shadow throughout the Blue Beetle film. Reyes was first introduced in 2006, and he appeared as a Mexican American from El Paso, Texas.
The first hero of the DC Universe who deserves some credit is the often overlooked Hispanic hero El Gaucho, aka Santiago Vargas. Once a member of the secret spy organization Spyral, Santiago becomes inspired by Batman to become a vigilante hero, donning the moniker of El Gaucho in the process.
