Who Is Mockingbird? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Mockingbird is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Barbara Morse, with over 1,161 comic issue appearances. Dr. Barbara "Bobbi" Morse is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and a founding member of West Coast Avengers. She's an excellent spy and biochemist.

Who is Mockingbird?

Origin Bobbi and Ka-Zar Barbara Morse graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in biology and passed her Civil Service examination so she could work with her biology professor, Dr. Wilma Calvin, on the government-sponsored project to rediscover the Super-Soldier formula that created Captain America . While in the government's employ, Morse's exemplary record came to the attention of SHIELD and she was invited to undertake training in her spare time. A champion gymnast in high school, Morse excelled at both the physical regimen and arts of espionage taught to all field agents. When Dr. Theodore Sallis, a maverick scientist also working on the Super-Soldier project, disappeared, Morse was given her first field assignment: to accompany SHIELD agent Paul Allen, suspected of being a traitor, to the Antarctic paradise known as the Savage Land in order to enlist the services of the hero Ka-Zar to find Sallis. Allen and Morse succeeded in contacting Ka-Zar and took him to the Florida Everglades.

Key facts

Mockingbird is of human origin and first appeared in "'Ware The Winds of Death; The Tentacles of the Tyrant". The character is published by Marvel. With 1,161 recorded issue appearances, Mockingbird ranks among the most featured characters in comics.