Le Fantôme

Debuting in the pages of Strange #224 in 1988 — courtesy of the legendary creative pairing of David Michelinie and John Romita Jr. — Le Fantôme is a Copper Age figure published by Editions Lug, the French imprint that brought Marvel's world to francophone readers. With a presence stretching across some 22 years and appearances in both Strange and Marvel Icons Hors Série, this character shares their corner of the comics universe with some of the heaviest hitters in the Marvel pantheon: Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Captain Marvel. A rare find with only a handful of catalogued appearances, Le Fantôme is precisely the kind of discovery that reminds collectors how wonderfully wide the world of comics truly is.