Gears Garvin

Gears Garvin rolled onto the scene in 1980, debuting in Machine Man #16 courtesy of the legendary Steve Ditko and Tom DeFalco — a Bronze Age Marvel creation with serious pedigree. Though their catalog footprint is compact, the company Gears keeps is anything but small, sharing pages with the likes of Machine Man, Spider-Man, and Matt Murdock across titles including Iron Man Annual and the Avengers Epic Collection. It's a testament to a character's staying power that appearances stretching from 1980 all the way to 2021 keep turning up in such consequential corners of the Marvel Universe — and for devoted Bronze Age hunters, any Ditko-touched debut is a find worth chasing down.