Straw Man

Straw Man stepped out of the shadows of Marvel's early '90s horror corners when Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, and Geof Isherwood introduced him in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #40 — a Copper Age debut that planted him firmly in the eerie, supernatural end of the Marvel Universe. With a name and presence that evokes dread and the uncanny, he haunts the same dark corridors as the Frankenstein Monster, Brother Voodoo, and nightmare-merchants like D'Spayre and the Dweller-in-Darkness, which tells you everything about the unsettling company he keeps. His footprint in the catalog is small but enduring — stretching across 25 years and earning a place in Marvel's Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Horror 2005, a roll call reserved for figures the publisher considers genuinely worth cataloguing among the macabre. For collectors who love the weird, shadowy margins of Marvel horror, Straw Man is exactly the kind of obscure gem that rewards a deeper dig.