Erik Rothschild

Born into the dark, imaginative world of Clive Barker's Night Breed, Erik Rothschild made his comics debut in 1992 — right at the fertile crossroads of the Copper and Modern Ages — brought to life by creators Larry Wachowski and Andy Paquette for Marvel. He moves through a shadowy corner of the Marvel catalog alongside compelling figures like Oral, Polk, Ghost, and Chester, the kind of roster that signals this is territory where the strange and unsettling hold court. With only four recorded appearances, Erik is a rare find, the sort of deep-cut character that rewards the dedicated collector willing to dig into one of comics' more gloriously offbeat licensed universes. If Clive Barker's Night Breed is on your reading list, Erik Rothschild is exactly the kind of discovery that makes hunting through back issues so worthwhile.