Veronica

Few characters carry a name as familiar as Veronica, yet this Marvel incarnation is a world away from Riverdale — a Bronze Age creation who debuted in Archie Annual Digest #30 in 1977 under Bob Bolling's hand and went on to carve out a quiet but meaningful corner of the Marvel Universe. Counted among the Pantheon, she keeps remarkable company: the Hulk, Bruce Banner, Rick Jones, and Betty Banner all share her pages across appearances in The Incredible Hulk and beyond. With a presence stretching from 1977 all the way to 2021 and a place in the celebrated Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus, Veronica is the kind of deep-catalog discovery that rewards the dedicated reader willing to dig past the headline names.