J. Jonah Jameson

Few figures in comics history have made a career out of being spectacularly, gloriously wrong quite like J. Jonah Jameson — the irascible, flat-topped newspaper editor whose vendetta against a certain wall-crawler has made him one of Marvel's most beloved thorns-in-the-side. In this Brazilian catalog from Editora Abril, he makes his entrance in 1979's Aventuras do Homem Aranha #4, courtesy of Len Wein and Sal Buscema, and goes on to haunt the pages of Superaventuras Marvel and the Espetacular/Espectacular Homem-Aranha titles across an impressive 45-year stretch. His world is a lively one — sharing adventures with the likes of Peter Parker, Homem-Aranha, Demolidor, Tia May, and Matt Murdock — which speaks to just how central this blustering, headline-hungry publisher is to the fabric of Marvel's street-level universe. Whether you're a longtime collector of Abril's Marvel output or discovering these editions fresh, Jameson is the kind of character whose presence on a cover practically guarantees a good time.