Mary Poppins (character) it appeared fully formed in her mind in 1934. Neil Gaiman's short story "The Problem of Susan" mentions a posthumously (for P. L. Travers) published work "Mary Poppins Brings in the Dawn", in which Mary Poppins was Jesus's nanny. Mary Poppins appears in Alan Moore's third "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" graphic novel, "", when it returns to Margaret Cavendish's "Blazing World". She later reappears in "Century: 2009", where she defeats the Antichrist created by Oliver Haddo. In this appearance, she and other characters hint that she may be a personification of God. In a sequence celebrating British children's literature during
Mary Poppins (character) Banks children of whom she is in charge. Mary also has a friendship with Bert (Dick Van Dyke), a jack-of-all-trades who is quite at home with Mary's brand of magic. She also is less vain and selfish (although there are a couple of references to her vanity when she replaces a dingy wall mirror with a more elegant one, and sings a duet with her reflection), and far more sympathetic towards the two children than the nanny in the original stories. Emily Blunt portrayed Mary Poppins in the sequel "Mary Poppins Returns". In both the West End and Broadway versions