Punkinhead

A homegrown Canadian charmer, Punkinhead made their debut in 1978 in The Calgary Herald Comic Book, a regional Bronze Age publication that gave local readers something to call their own. With a run stretching into 1980 and six appearances in the catalog, this is a delightfully rare slice of Canadian comics history — the kind of find that makes a collector's heart skip a beat. Punkinhead shared those pages with an eclectic crowd including Buck Rogers and Marmaduke, making The Calgary Herald Comic Book a wonderfully offbeat anthology of its era. Small in footprint but rich in regional character, Punkinhead is exactly the sort of obscure gem that reminds us how vibrant and wide-ranging the Bronze Age truly was.