JOANNA CARGILL
Real Name: Joanna "Jonna" Cargill
Identity/Class: Human
Occupation: Journalist
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: American Eagle (Jason Strongbow)
Enemies: Knights of Saint Virgil, Peace Monger (Dr. Talmadge Cobleskill)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Washington D.C.;
formerly Kaibito, Arizona
First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents I#27 (Early September, 1989)
Powers/Abilities: Joanna Cargill is a talented journalist, who sometimes loses sight of her story because she becomes too invested in the topic of her story.
Height: Unrevealed (5'7"'; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed (140 lbs.; by approximation)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
History:
(Marvel Comics Presents I#27 (fb)) - Cargill was a journalist that planned to write a story about the superhuman Native American Jason Strongbow. While living on his reservation she befriended him and tried to convince him that he couldn't away from his responsibility as a superhuman and that his righteous anger was nothing more than another form of hate. Jason was just mad at her for not using her influence as part of the press to aid his people against the government's political bigotry. In the end Cargill left and never filed the story about Jason Strongbow because she hoped that Jason would someday understand that he couldn't fight hatred with hatred.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#27 (fb) - BTS) - While covering Dr. Cobleskill's civil rights movement in Washington D.C., she heard that Jason had become a political lobbyist.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#27) - Cargill attended a fund-raising dinner of the movement, which was attacked by the Knights of Saint Virgil. They claimed to have come there to kill Dr. Cobleskill, but they were quickly taken down by American Eagle. The hero took her to a nearby balcony to tell her that Cobleskill had actually staged the attack before she wrote in her column at her "famously biased newspaper" (as American Eagle called it) about the event. When American Eagle called her by her name and quoted something she had told him in the past, she realized that the hero was Jason Strongbow. After American Eagle left she wondered if she had become what she hated by a supporting a movement that actually wasn't attempting to gain peace.
Cargill went to a rally at the Washington Monument where Dr. Cobleskill talked the crowd into a frenzy. She confronted Cobleskill and asked him to tell the people the truth that he had hired the men over there at his car and had staged the attack on himself. Cobleskill angrily knocked Cargill to the ground, but was stopped by American Eagle before he could do more damage to her. Cobleskill aka. Peace Monger quickly gained the advantage over the hero when he gained strength from the people's hatred, but lost it as soon as the people present felt betrayed and confused. In the end Cobleskill was arrested and Cargill asked American Eagle for a comment for the press. She hoped he was right that "these times they are a changing" (quoting Bob Dylan) and gave Jason a kiss on the cheek.
Comments: Created by Scott Lobdell & Ron Wilson.
In the story she was only called Jonna, but in American Eagle's handbook profile she was called Joanna, which makes sense because Jonna can be short for Joanna.
Profile by Markus Raymond.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Joanna Cargill should not be confused with:
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Marvel Comics Presents I#27, p26, pan8 (main; carried by American Eagle)
Marvel Comics Presents I#27, p28, pan7 (head shot)
Appearances:
Marvel Comics Presents I#27 (early September, 1989) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Ron Wilson (pencils), Jeff Albrecht (inks), Terry Kavanagh (editor)
First Posted: 09/21/2025
Last updated: 09/21/2025
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