Colonel America

Few characters announce their purpose quite as boldly as Colonel America — a figure born from the darkest corner of Marvel's Modern Age, debuting in Ultimate Fantastic Four #22 in 2005 under the hands of Mark Millar and Greg Land. He's most at home in the grim, flesh-hungry world of the Marvel Zombies saga, where he haunts titles like Marvel Zombies, Marvel Zombies 2, and Marvel Zombies: Dead Days alongside an extraordinary — and extraordinarily dangerous — cast that includes Spider-Man, Logan, Steve Rogers, and Luke Cage. With over two decades of appearances stretching into 2026, this is a character who has carved out a genuinely memorable niche in Marvel's horror-tinged corner of the multiverse, and for collectors drawn to the macabre what-ifs of the publisher's most unsettling "what if the heroes fell?" storytelling, Colonel America is an essential piece of that chilling puzzle.