Created by John Romita Sr.,[1] Rick Hoberg,[2] and Dennis Marks,[3] the character first appeared in 1981 on the NBC animated television series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.

Firestar – spelled as Fire-Star – was created for the NBC animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends,[6] with Kathy Garver providing her voice.

Dennis Marks, one of the original writers of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, stated in a 2002 interview that he had come up with the name of Fire-Star's alias, Angelica Jones, taken from one of his old girlfriends.

Despite the mini-series' efforts to flesh out the character, Firestar was not featured in any stories for a few years (aside from a five-part serial in the Marvel Comics Presents anthology series; issues #82–87) and seemed destined to fade into obscurity until she joined the New Warriors.

A lonely girl raised by her widowed father Bartholomew and paternal grandmother, Angelica Jones discovered that she possessed mutant powers.

She was never sent on field missions with the other Hellions, however, because of her lack of control over her lethal powers and because the White Queen wished to instill cruelty and callousness in Firestar's personality, and befriending other young mutants would work against that goal.

Angelica did meet the New Mutants at a Massachusetts Academy dance and, with the White Queen's telepathic prompting, formed a crush on Cannonball.

Growing close to Angelica, Randall eventually began to suspect the White Queen's true motives and was to be terminated.

In retaliation, Jones attacked and defeated the White Queen, and decimated the hidden training complex beneath Frost's Massachusetts Academy.

[22] Shortly after her resignation from the Massachusetts Academy, Firestar became a founding member of the New Warriors when she was invited (or rather blackmailed) by Night Thrasher into joining, and helped them battle Terrax.

[41] During this period, Hank Pym determined that the cause of her potential infertility was that her natural immunity to the effects of her own powers (which all mutants possess) had never fully developed.

He designed a costume for her that would siphon off the excess radiation, give her natural immunity the opportunity to manifest fully and heal the damage already done.

[55] She's later diagnosed by Doctor Strange and the Night Nurse as being in the earlier stages of the illness, provoked seemingly by the same inability to shield herself from her microwave emission powers that is making her infertile.

In addition to tracking the Bastards, Firestar and Gravity begin to patrol the city at night fighting street level crime.

[67] After Gravity is injured in a fight with Crossbones, she assumes full command until she and Prodigy travel to Las Vegas to assist with the damage control efforts after the Juggernaut's attack on the city and subsequent battle with the Heavy Hitters.

[volume & issue needed] Following the end of Fear Itself, Firestar has been seen with Gravity and their former Young Allies associate Spider-Girl fighting Hydro Man, indicating the group is still working together.

[72] She participated in the containment of a massive Wendigo outbreak in Canada,[73] became a member of the New Tian Strikeforce after Hydra's brief takeover of the USA,[74] and battled X-Man[75] and Carnage.

In this state, she was invited by James Rhodes to join the new West Coast Avengers which he and Tony Stark were putting together, which included several former supervillains like Ultron and Blue Bolt in their lineup.

By superheating the air around her, Firestar can generate enough upward thrust to fly at high speeds and lift objects as heavy as the X-Man Colossus.

During training exercises with Emma Frost in her limited series, she was chastised by her teacher for clumsiness and warned that she could have been "severely burned" by a laser.

[volume & issue needed] However, she eventually displayed the ability to siphon heat energy and to detect electromagnetic signatures from broadcast transmissions.

He designed a suit of micro-circuitry to be worn under her costume that absorbed the excess microwave energy that was affecting her cells, and diverted it in a way that would "kick start" her natural immunity to her own powers.

She easily produced an attack that injured Garthan Saal when he possessed the energy of the entire Nova Corps,[85] and also used her enhanced abilities to power a massive Shi'ar interstellar transport gate with very little effort.

In issue #3 of this miniseries, she is shown, in flashback, to be among the reserve members of the Avengers answering Colonel America's distress signal (unaware it was a trap), and subsequently leaving the mansion (with fewer people than went in) infected and hungry for human flesh.

[102] She, along with numerous other heroes, died in battle in the final issue of Mutant X. Firestar appeared in Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane.

The Firestar story arc took place in issues #16-20 of the series and was compiled in digest format as Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Vol.

Also, Iceman appears in a few pages of the final issue of the story arc, showcasing a rare comic-book moment in which the "Spider-Friends" are shown together.

In the final moments of the story, Liz's body becomes a living mass of flames, signaling her transformation into what could be considered Ultimate Firestar.

[volume & issue needed] She also attended a small party that commemorated Peter a few years after his death with Iceman and Human Torch.

[volume & issue needed] In 1987, Firestar appeared as a guest in Marvel Comics' live reenactment of Spider-Man's wedding to Mary Jane Watson.