With her anniversary arriving November 9, we're exploring her complicated origins, connections to HYDRA, superhero accomplishments, motherhood, animated adventures and remarkable legacy. Because Jessica Drew demonstrates something worth remembering: Your past may explain where you've been, but it doesn't have the authority to decide who you become.

For this Halloween edition of Tony’s Superhero Saturdays™, we're spotlighting one of Marvel's most visually recognizable and morally complicated supernatural heroes. From Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch to Robbie Reyes, Ghost Rider has spent decades confronting demons, criminals and supernatural threats while struggling with the darkness connected to his own power.

James “Rhodey” Rhodes was a soldier before he became a superhero, a friend before he became a partner and a man of courage long before anyone handed him a billion-dollar suit of armor. While Tony Stark became famous as Iron Man, Rhodey earned something that could not be manufactured in a laboratory or purchased with Stark Industries money: the trust of those who knew he would stand beside them when everything went wrong.

With blue fur, glowing yellow eyes, pointed ears, three-fingered hands, a prehensile tail and an appearance often compared to a demon, Nightcrawler looks like someone straight out of a supernatural horror story. Yet behind that frightening exterior lives one of Marvel Comics' most compassionate, humorous and spiritually grounded heroes.

Green Arrow is a hero built around aim. Not just the aim of a bow. The aim of a life. Where is your anger pointed? Where is your wealth pointed? Where is your pain pointed? Where is your second chance pointed? Oliver Queen’s best stories are not simply about archery. They are about a man learning that survival means nothing if he returns home unchanged.

That is what makes Deadpool more than a gimmick. He is not just Marvel’s “Merc with a Mouth.” He is the man behind the mask who uses humor like armor, chaos like camouflage and madness like a survival strategy. His story may be bloody, bizarre and inappropriate in all kinds of ways, but at the center of it is something very human: a damaged man trying to live with himself.

Before Sarah Connor became the mother of the future, she was simply trying to live. Then fear found her. Violence found her. A war that had not happened yet reached backward through time and put her name on a death sentence. But Sarah did not disappear. She survived. She changed. She prepared. She became the wall between her son and the machines that wanted humanity’s future destroyed before it could even begin.

But there is no Batman without Alfred Pennyworth. There is no Batman without the man who raised a broken boy after the worst night of his life. There is no Batman without the man who turned Wayne Manor from an empty mansion into a home. There is no Batman without the man who kept the Batcave running, the secrets safe, the wounds treated, the suits repaired, the alibis ready and the family together.

On September 11, 2001, the world saw heroes who did not come from comic books. They came from firehouses. They came from police precincts. They came from ambulance crews. They came from office floors, airport gates, military corridors, ordinary neighborhoods, phone calls, stairwells, smoke-filled hallways and families that never knew their loved ones were living their final morning.

Scott Free is not powerful because he can escape chains, locks, traps, prisons, death machines and impossible cages. He is powerful because he was raised in a world designed to break him, and he still chose freedom. He came from Apokolips, a place built on cruelty, control, fear, pain and obedience to Darkseid. He was trained in suffering. He was surrounded by darkness. He was supposed to become another weapon in a system that fed on broken spirits.

For Tony’s Superhero Saturdays™, Booster Gold is the perfect spotlight because he speaks directly to the age we are living in. We live in a world of personal brands, viral moments, image management, followers, sponsorships, public praise and private insecurity. Booster Gold walked into superhero comics carrying all of that before social media made it normal.

For Tony’s Superhero Saturdays™, Shazam deserves the spotlight because his story reminds us that power by itself is not enough. Muscles are not enough. Lightning is not enough. Flight, speed, invulnerability and strength are not enough. The real question is not whether someone can hold power.

Emotion. Willpower. Fear. Rage. Hope. Love. Compassion. Greed. Death. Life. That is what makes the Lantern mythology so powerful. It is not just about space cops with glowing rings. It is about the forces that move people, break people, corrupt people, heal people and drive them into battle. A Lantern ring does not simply give someone power. It reveals something about them.

For Tony’s Superhero Saturdays™, this is a hero worth spotlighting because Curtis Metcalf speaks directly to anyone who has ever been gifted, overlooked, used, underestimated or made to feel grateful for a seat at a table where they were never meant to have ownership. His story reminds us that your genius is not a cage. Your talent is not someone else’s property. Your mind is not just a tool for another person’s empire.

With Spider-Man: Brand New Day now in theaters, Tony’s Superhero Saturdays™ is taking the perfect moment to spotlight the wall-crawler who taught generations that being a hero is not about having an easy life. It is about doing the right thing when life is anything but easy.

For Tony’s Superhero Saturdays™, The Question is a perfect spotlight because his story speaks directly to a world drowning in noise, spin, propaganda, conspiracy, distraction and half-truths. He reminds us that truth still matters. Discernment still matters. Courage still matters. And sometimes the hero we need most is not the one who punches the hardest, but the one willing to ask what everybody else is afraid to say out loud.

That was the magic of The Centurions. It was loud, colorful, high-tech, dramatic and impossible to forget if it hit you at the right age. The series gave us heroes who did not simply put on armor. They fused with weapon systems. They became walking, flying and underwater arsenals. They were not robots, and they were not ordinary soldiers. They were human beings linked with technology in a way that made them feel like superheroes built for the next century.

He rises from the muck, the moss, the roots, the rot, the water, the green silence of forgotten places and the pain of a man who lost everything. He does not look like the hero people expect. He does not arrive polished, clean, charming, or easy to understand. He looks like something people would run from before they ever asked whether he was there to protect them.

Isaiah Bradley is not just another version of Captain America. He is a fictional character whose story forces readers to wrestle with a painful question: What happens when a nation needs Black people to fight for its freedom, but refuses to fully treat Black people as free?

That is what makes The Crow one of the most unforgettable supernatural hero stories ever created. It is dark, emotional, gothic, violent, poetic, musical, and filled with pain. But beneath all of that darkness is a story about devotion. It is about a man whose love was so real that death could not completely silence it.