Doctor Strange will show up as a mentor to coach Lin Lie the key to rise as a hero in Sword Master, one of Marvel's first two Chinese superhero comic series. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Marvel's first Chinese superheroes will debut in the United States in Spring next year.

The announcement came at the recent China International Comics Games Expo in Shanghai, where Marvel also announced that digital and paper copies would also be released.

One of the characters, Sword Master centers on Lin Lie, a young student who finds an ancient artifact that gives him incredible powers, but who unwittingly unleashes an ancient evil tied to his own family's past, according to Marvel.

As for Aero, the story is about Lei Ling, a successful architect who one day awakens to find that she possesses the ability to control air currents, but is forced to make difficult choices about her own fate and future.