Sniper

Emerging from the gritty, street-level corners of Marvel's late-1980s Copper Age, Sniper made their debut in The Punisher War Journal #4 in 1989 — a series that was already turning heads thanks in no small part to a young Jim Lee's electric artwork, alongside creators John Wellington and Carl Potts. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a character whose footprint is small but whose world is fascinatingly dangerous, sharing pages with Frank Castle himself, Microchip, and the shadowy Richard von Burian in one of Marvel's most ruthlessly grounded corners of storytelling. For collectors drawn to the dark, morally complex war-on-crime atmosphere that defined the Punisher's universe at its peak, Sniper is one of those intriguing background players who reminds you just how richly populated — and unforgiving — that world truly was.