Jonathan N. York

A minor player in Marvel's morally murky Dark Reign era, Jonathan N. York surfaces in the 2009 miniseries Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man, a corner of the Marvel Universe where villainy wore a hero's mask. Created by Brian Reed and Chris Bachalo, he inhabits a world populated by the likes of Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson, and the wonderfully bizarre Hippo — a cast that tells you everything about the gleefully twisted tone of his corner of comics. With only a handful of appearances to his name, York is one of those intriguing background figures that rewards the deep-diving collector who wants to know every face in the room when Marvel's Dark Reign was at its most deliciously complicated.