After the news last week that an established character at DC Comics will be revealed as gay fairly soon, Marvel has gone one step further and decided that one of their characters is getting married to his boyfriend. 

Gay superhero Northstar, real name Jean-Paul Beaubier, proposes to his long term partner Kyle Jinadu in Issue 50 of ‘Astonishing X-Men’ which hit the shelves yesterday. 

They will be getting married next month in Issue 51 (don’t hang around do they?).

The scene sees Jean-Paul get down on one knee and says ‘I'm asking you to marry me.’

Well, I suppose he was in his civilian gear – but we were expecting something a bit more...superhero style? Nothing says I love you like writing ‘marry me’ in the sky with fire, or something.

Of course, Northstar isn’t the only gay in the comic book village, he came out twenty years ago. DC’s Batwoman features a gay character, and inside sources say they are ready to out another.

Batman? Robin? Superman? Aquaman? Wonderwoman?

We expect Stan Lee or Northstar to record an Out4Marriage video quite soon.