Nova (Richard Rider) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. Becoming a member of the galaxy's Nova Corps, an intergalactic police force, the youth gained enhanced strength, flight, injury resistance, and a specialized uniform with life support. The character, in a slightly different form as Black Nova, was created by Marv Wolfman and Len Wein in the fanzine Super Adventures in 1966.

Seven years later John Romita, Sr. tweaked the design of the character's uniform. Nova debuted in Nova #1 in 1976, written by Wolfman and drawn by John Buscema.

Wolfman intended the teenage character to be an homage to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Spider-Man, down to his humble working-class roots and alliterative alter-ego. The original Nova series, The Man Called Nova (the tag-line for issue #1 reads "In the Marvelous tradition of Spider-Man!"), lasted 25 issues, running from September 1976 to May 1979. Dangling plotlines were resolved in several issues of Fantastic Four, which was written by Wolfman at the time.

The character then disappeared into obscurity for some time before returning as a member of the original New Warriors team, appearing in New Warriors (vol. 1) #1-75, Annual #1-4 (July, 1990 — September, 1996). Marvel produced three subsequent Nova titles, including Nova (vol.

2) #1-18, which ran from January 1994 to June 1995, and Nova, The Human Rocket (vol. 3) #1-7, which ran from May 1999 to November, 1999. Nova would also return in two subsequent series as a member of the New Warriors, namely New Warriors (vol.

2) #0-10 (October, 1999 — July, 2000) and New Warriors (vol. 3) #1-6 (July, 2005 - December, 2005). The most recent of solo series (Nova, volume 4) began in April, 2007.

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