Wasp (comics)
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Template:Superherobox The Wasp is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics' universe, and is a central member of The Avengers. She was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Tales to Astonish #44 (June 1963).
Character Biography
Janet van Dyne was a shallow, self-centered, flighty heiress, daughter of wealthy scientist Vernon van Dyne. During an experiment, however, an alien monster was unleashed and Dr. van Dyne was killed. Her father's associate, Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym, had created a substance called "Pym particles", which allowed the user to grow or shrink in size, and had become the superhero Ant-Man; when Janet's father died, she convinced Pym to help her, and he gave her a supply of "Pym particles" and subjected her to a procedure which granted her the ability to, upon shrinking, grow wings and fire blasts of energy, which she called her "wasp's stings". As Ant-Man and The Wasp, they defeated the monster and sent it to its own dimension, and had several more adventures together.
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Recently, during the events of Avengers Disassembled she was knocked into a coma by an attack on Avengers Mansion. Hank watched over her as she lay in the hospital, and when she recovered they reconciled. The two have retired from the Avengers in order to pursue a new life together in Oxford.