Loxias Crown
A creature of the late-1990s Spider-Man universe, Loxias Crown slithered onto the scene in 1997 courtesy of Howard Mackie and John Romita Jr. — a formidable pairing that defined that era's darker, grittier corner of Marvel. Debuting in Spider-Man #76, Crown carved out a niche across titles like Peter Parker: Spider-Man and Spider-Man: The Next Chapter, sharing pages with the wall-crawler himself alongside familiar faces like J. Jonah Jameson, Flash Thompson, and Jill Stacy. He may be a rare find with only a handful of catalogued appearances, but for collectors hunting the full texture of the Copper/Modern Age Spider-Man mythos, Loxias Crown is exactly the kind of shadowy, era-specific figure that makes digging through long boxes so rewarding.
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