Stronghold

Stronghold burst onto the scene in 1993's Bloodshot #5, a creation of Kevin VanHook and Don Perlin that planted this Acclaim/Valiant figure firmly in the fertile early Modern Age of comics. Though the catalog footprint is compact, the company Stronghold keeps is anything but small — sharing pages with heavy hitters like Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, and the Eternal Warrior Gilad Anni-Padda across titles including Deathmate, one of that era's most talked-about crossover events. That one key-issue appearance punches well above the character's appearance count, making Stronghold a genuine curiosity for Valiant completists hunting the corners of a universe that still rewards deep digging.