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= Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal (comic) = Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal is a comic book published in 2014 and written by American author G. Willow Wilson and illustrated by Adrian Alphona. It is the first comic in the Ms. Marvel series which follows the story of Kamala Kha n attaining her superhero powers and coming to terms with her new identity as Ms. Marvel. Kamala is one of several humans to attain her superhero abilities when Terrigen Mist is released into the atmosphere. Her abilities allow her to extend her limbs, alter her appearance and shapeshift.

Plot Summary
Set in Jersey City, Kamala Khan is the 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants who idolises the Avengers, especially Captain Marvel, and writes fanfiction about them. The comic opens with Kamala and her friend, Nakia, in the Circle Q convenience store talking to their other best friend, Bruno. Zoe and her boyfriend, Josh, walk in and invite them to a party on the waterfront. insert citation? Although Nakia does not want to go due to there being alcohol, Kamala decides to sneak out from her parents' house to attend the party. Zoe and Josh come up to Kamala and trick her into consuming a drink which contains alcohol and she runs away. Terrigen Mist starts to surround the city and causes Kamala to faint. Kamala experiences a dream-like trance and envisions Captain Marvel speaking Urdu alongside Captain America and Iron Man. In the dream, Kamala states that she does not know who she is meant to be. When Captain Marvel asks her who she wants to be, Kamala repies "I want to be you." Suddenly, Kamala awakes finding herself within a cocoon. The first issue ends with Kamala, morphed as Captain Marvel, punching her way out of it and realising that she has has been granted the abilities to shapeshift, distort her size and warp her limbs.

The second issue begins with Kamala hearing Zoe and Josh arguing by the waterfront. They are both drunk and when Josh attempts to dance with Zoe, she refuses. As Josh is holding Zoe, her jacket accidentally rips and she falls into the water and begins to drown. Kamala remembers a quote her father used to recite from the Quran: "Whoever kills one person, It is as if he has killed all of mankind." Kamala uses this as guidance to save Zoe while morphed as Captain Marvel. However, Kamala realises that being "someone else" does not make her happy. When she returns home, she finds her parents and brother waiting for her.

The third issue starts with a television report announcing how Zoe was recused by somebody "dressed as Ms. Marvel." After worrying she will be found out, Kamala and her brother attend Sheik Abdullah's Saturday youth lecture at the Majid and she speaks to Nakia, who is also there, about her powers metaphorically, asking whether a person can ever wake up and just feel "different." They leave and attend school where Kamala begins to feel a tension in her skin suggesting her body is about to change. Before Bruno can speak to her, Kamala hides in the school's gymnasium and tests out her powers. Kamala is found by one of the teachers and is given detention after creating damage. After serving detention, Kamala notices Circle Q being burgled. The burgular asks Bruno why he is working instead of another worker, Chatty Bob, and begins talking about a mysterious character named the Inventor. Suddenly, Kamala, morphed as Carol Danvers, attempts to stop the robbery. However, she is shot.

The next issue begins with Kamala morphing back into her true form finding out that she can heal quickly as long as she does not shapeshift. insert citation Bruno realises Ms. Marvel is Kamala. Kamala finds out that Bruno's yonger brother, Vick, was the one who tried to hold up the store and they both agree to keep Vick's identity a secret from the police. By attaining Bruno's GPS data from his mobile phone, Kamala visits an abandoned house in Greenville which Vick attends clandestinely. Kamala realises she needs to be herself, not Captain Marvel. After using her powers on two people who guard the house, Kamala is attacked by many small robots inside who belong to Doyle. Kamala fails to rescue Vick and shrinks to a smaller size to escape.

In the final issue, Kamala tests out her superpowers with Bruno. She enlists Bruno to help alter her costume by using the "super snot" polymer which he is developing. She rubs some on and finds she can enlarge and shrink her body more efficiently. In more control of her powers, Kamala defeats Doyle and rescues Vick by enlarging herself and storming out of the house. Doyle attends the Southbank Coal Plant to speak to the Inventor who announces "You haven't just created a problem, Doyle. You've created an urban legend. And the legend ends NOW!"