Woody Allen

A satirical creation of the Silver Age, this Woody Allen — the comic-book caricature, not the filmmaker — made his debut in Showcase #71 in 1967, brought to life by E. Nelson Bridwell and Mike Sekowsky. He's a delightful oddity in the Marvel catalog, a comedic figure who turns up in the irreverent pages of Crazy Magazine and similarly tongue-in-cheek publications, rubbing elbows with caricatures of Barbra Streisand, Marlon Brando, Richard Nixon, Robert Redford, and even Charlie Brown. Spanning nearly five decades of sporadic appearances, he's a charming artifact of comics' long love affair with pop-culture parody — rare enough at just eight catalog appearances to make any issue he graces a genuine curiosity worth seeking out.