Shang-Chi

A German-market reprint edition brings its own flavor to comics history, and this Panini Deutschland incarnation of Shang-Chi made his catalog debut in X-Men #29 (1999), courtesy of Scott Lobdell, Reinhard Schweizer, and Joe Madureira. Across a span touching some 25 years, he turns up most in X-Men and Spider-Man collections, sharing pages with heavy-hitters like Spider-Man, Logan, and Ororo Munroe — extraordinary company by any measure. With only five appearances catalogued here, this is a collector's curiosity: a window into how Marvel's martial-arts master traveled across international markets and found his way into the hands of a whole new readership.