Mister Doll

A Silver Age curiosity with genuine pedigree, Mister Doll made his debut in Tales of Suspense #48 in 1963, conjured by the legendary pairing of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko at the height of Marvel's creative explosion. His handful of appearances have kept him in orbit around some of Marvel's biggest names — Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, and Happy Hogan among them — and that debut issue carries enough collector weight to earn key-issue recognition. With reprints surfacing in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko and Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man, he's a small but intriguing thread in the rich tapestry of early Iron Man history, the kind of deep-cut Silver Age villain that reminds you just how wonderfully strange those first Marvel years really were.