Marvel Comics usually publishes comic books about superheroes who save the world from villains, but this time, they've decided to do something different. "Madaya Mom," a Syrian mother of five living in the besieged Syrian city of Madaya, has become Marvel's latest superhero.

“A hero, or a superhero, is a matter of heart and determination, and not about special powers. So if in the midst of war, you keep the strength to be a calm and loving mother to your family, and take the role of spokesman for all the mothers caught in a war, I think you fit the category of a superhero,’’ Dalibor Talajic, the comic's illustrator from Zagreb, Croatia, told Al-Monitor. ABC News managed to establish contact with a Syrian woman and chronicled her testimonies in a blog on its website. For her own protection, she was called “Madaya Mom.”

"Madaya Mom" is a free new digital comic created by ABC News and Marvel Comics. The comic tells the true story of the Syrian mother and her five children who have been trapped inside the Syrian town of Madaya since Syria's President Bashar al-Assad began besieging the town in July 2015. The woman and her children are fighting off starvation, unsanitary living conditions and threats of violence.

The woman couldn’t get out of Madaya, and ABC News couldn’t get in. Because the network wanted to add a visual element to her story, ABC producer Rym Momtaz approached Marvel to ask if they could visualize the woman's messages, Talajic said. “Since I have been working with Marvel for years and I had a reputation as an artist who can build around very little information, they asked if I was up for it.”