Kim Il Sung

Debuting in the pages of Spécial Strange #56 in 1988 — a French-language publication from Editions Lug — Kim Il Sung is a Copper Age presence whose comics life has stretched across a surprisingly broad span of years. With only a handful of catalogued appearances, this is a rare, collector-curiosity figure, the kind of name that rewards patient digging through back-issue bins of European Marvel editions. Those appearances place Kim Il Sung in vivid company: the same pages as the likes of Ororo Munroe, Kurt Wagner, and Logan, brought to life in that debut issue by the acclaimed creative pairing of Ann Nocenti and Arthur Adams. A niche find for devotees of the Franco-Belgian Marvel landscape and anyone who loves tracking down the overlooked corners of the Copper Age.