Robert Walton IV

A Bronze Age original who stepped onto the page in 1973's Frankenstein #1 — brought to life by Gary Friedrich and the atmospheric pencils of Mike Ploog, with a nod to Mary Shelley herself in the credits — Robert Walton IV carries a name that resonates with gothic literary history. His Marvel existence has kept remarkable company: Victor Frankenstein, the Frankenstein Monster, the Bride, and even Ted Sallis's monstrous alter ego Man-Thing have all shared his pages, placing him squarely in that wonderfully eerie corner of the Marvel Universe where horror and heroism blur. Though his catalog footprint is small, his appearances stretch across an impressive arc from 1973 all the way to 2019, and his presence in Book of the Dead and the retrospective Decades: Marvel in the '70s — Legion of Monsters marks him as a genuine piece of Bronze Age monster-comic history worth seeking out.