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Sana Amanat is an American comic book creator and editor. She is a director and editor at Marvel Comics, developing and managing creative content for the company's various publishing lines. Her notable credits include Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, and Captain Marvel. She co-created Marvel's first solo series to feature a Muslim female superhero, Ms. Marvel, which gained worldwide media attention.

Early Life
Amanat was born into a Pakistani family. She lived with her parents, who were Pakistani immigrants, in a predominantly white New Jersey suburb. Throughout her childhood, Amanat had trouble fitting in and struggled with self-identity as she often wished to be white herself. She also idealized the beauty of women who were blonde and white.

Career
Amanat studied political science with a focus on the Middle East at Barnard College at Columbia University. After college, Amanat worked in magazine publishing until she landed a position with an indie comic book company. Two years later, the company went out of business, but Amanat felt confident with a fresh voice in a male-dominated field.

Amanat joined Marvel Comics in 2009. Currently, she is the director of content and character development at Marvel Comics. In 2014, she co-created Marvel's first solo series to feature a female Muslim superhero called Ms. Marvel. While creating the comic, she drew on her own experience as the child of Pakistani immigrants in the New Jersey suburbs in hopes that the next generation will not experience identity rejection as she did through a relatable superhero. The comic spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and also won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story in 2015. Ms.Marvel sells much more digitally than in stores, has at times been Marvel's top digital seller overall, and is Marvel's top-selling book internationally.

In her Ted Talk, Amanat states that "the big idea behind Ms.Marvel [was] very much about minority representation, the bigger idea was about finding your authentic self". Numerous young and ethnic letter writers were excited to see Kamala Khan who looked like them and came from a similar background.

During Amanat's tenure, Marvel has developed a female Thor, a Korean-American Hulk, as well as an African-American and Latino Spider-Man.

Ms. Marvel

 * Volume 1: No Normal
 * In the first installation of the new Ms.Marvel, Kamala Khan is a sixteen-year-old teenager growing up in New Jersey with a very strict Muslim background. Frustrated with her Muslim parents' strict rules, and feeling outcast at her mostly white school, Kamala sneaks out of her house to attend a mixed-gender party. After being bullied at the party, she is enveloped in a transformative fog on her way home and wakes up with superpowers. Now, Kamala can manipulate her body to whoever she wants to be which at first is the blonde, white, and beautiful Carol Danvers. Eventually, Kamala gains the advice and wisdom to be herself, which is an example of Amanat's and Kamala's struggle with self-identity in their early stages. and to start fighting crime.
 * Volume 2: Generation Why
 * This is the second volume of the Ms. Marvel series in which Kamala teams up with some heroes, such as Wolverine (character) and Lockjaw (comics), to stop a maniacal villain, the Inventor. In this volume, Kamala’s strengths and weaknesses are put to the test. Her life as Ms. Marvel is shown to take over her life as Kamala Khan. This series of comics is very relatable to young girls all around the world. Besides all the action and life-saving, the comics focus on Kamala’s family life and they illustrate what she is like as a Muslim girl, rather than just a superhero.
 * Volume 4: Last Days
 * This is the fourth volume of the Ms. Marvel series in which Kamala teams up with Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) herself to face their biggest threat yet: the end of the world. Not only does she team up with her personal hero, she also rescues her brother and tries to keep her city from falling into a frenzy. This story shows us how hard Kamala is willing to fight to save those around her. She is not afraid to literally face the end of the world for her planet which gives the reader a sense of how strong and courageous she truly is.

Marvel Comics

 * Ms. Marvel vol. 3 #1–19 (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, February 2014 – October 2015)
 * Volume 1: No Normal (tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-9021-X) collects:
 * "Garden State of Mind" (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in All-New Marvel NOW! Point One #1.NOW, 2014)
 * "Meta Morphosis" (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in #1, 2014)
 * "All Mankind" (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in #2, 2014)
 * "Side Entrance" (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in #3, 2014)
 * "Past Curfew" (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in #4, 2014)
 * "Urban Legend" (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in #5, 2014)
 * Volume 2: Generation Why (tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9022-8) collects:
 * "Healing Factor" (with Jake Wyatt, in #6–7, 2014)
 * "Generation Why" (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in #8–11, 2014–2015)
 * Volume 3: Crushed (tpb, 112 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9227-1) collects:
 * "Loki in Love" (with G.Willow Wilson and Elmo Bondoc, in #12, 2015)
 * "Crushed" (with G.Willow Wilson and Takeshi Miyazawa, in #13–15, 2015)
 * Volume 4: Last Days (tpb, 120 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9736-2) collects:
 * "Last Days" (with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in #16–19, 2015)
 * Ms. Marvel vol. 4 #1-... (November 2015 – present)
 * Volume 5: Super Famous (tpb, 136 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9611-0)
 * "Super Famous" (with G.Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona and Takeshi Miyazawa, in #1–3, 2015–2016)
 * "Army of One" (with G.Willow Wilson and Nico Leon, in #4–6, 2016)
 * "The Road to War" (with G.Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, in #7, 2016)
 * "Civil War II" (with G.Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona and Takeshi Miyazawa, in #8-11, 2016)
 * "The Road to War" (with G.Willow Wilson and Mirka Andolfo, in #12, 2016)
 * "Election Day" (with G.Willow Wilson and Mirka Andolfo, in #13, 2016)
 * "Damage Per Second" (with G.Willow Wilson, Takeshi Miyazawa, and Nelson Blake II, in #14-17, 2017)
 * "Meanwhile in Wakanda" (with G.Willow Wilson and Francesco Gaston, in #18, 2017)
 * "Mecca" (with G.Willow Wilson, Marco Failla, Nelson Blake II, and Valerio Schiti, in #19-22, 2017)
 * "Northeast Corridor" (with G.Willow Wilson, Diego Olortegui, and Valerio Schiti, in #23-24, 2017)