Black Knight

Few Marvel characters carry as much moral complexity as Black Knight, who burst onto the Silver Age scene in Tales to Astonish #52 in 1964, courtesy of Stan Lee and Dick Ayers. Over a remarkable 58-year publishing history, this figure has ridden the full spectrum of Marvel's moral landscape — counted among both the villainous Masters of Evil and the heroic Avengers, making them one of the more fascinatingly versatile players in the House of Ideas. The Avengers titles are their natural hunting ground, where they've shared the page with icons like Captain America, Iron Man, and Janet Van Dyne, running in the very best company Marvel has to offer. With 10 key issues to their name, Black Knight is exactly the kind of deep-catalog character that rewards the curious collector willing to dig past the household names.