Moira Brandon

Origin

Moira Brandon was a rich and snotty former movie star and bombshell who fell on hard times with the advent of "talkies" because she had an unappealing voice due to years of smoking. Becoming a recluse in her lavish mansion that she had bought with the money she made as a star of silent pictures, she sold her mansion to Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Black Goliath for the Avengers to use as a West Coast base.

Creation

Moira Brandon was technically created Roger Stern and first appeared in a very minor role in The Avengers #246. She made her first proper and only notable appearance years later in a flashback in Avengers West Coast #100 by Roy Thomas and Dave Ross.

Major Story Arcs

Avengers West Coast Assemble!

When Hawkeye and Mockingbird were checking out the house they were attacked by Crossfire who bested them and planned to execute the two. They were saved by Moira Brandon who shot Crossfire with a crossbow he had discarded earlier.

Moira was injured in the skirmish and claimed that saving Hawkeye and Mockingbird was the most alive she felt in years to which Hawkeye and Mockingbird decided to make her the "first official West Coast Avenger".

She is reported to have died some years later, although has retained honorary Avengers membership despite not having any powers or ever truly fighting alongside them.