Anya Lensherr

A haunting presence in Marvel's exploration of one of its most iconic figures, Anya Lensherr made her debut in Uncanny Origins #2 in 1996, brought to life by Glenn Herdling and Dave Hoover. With only a handful of catalogued appearances spread across Excalibur, Earth X, and Uncanny Origins, she is a rare and quietly significant figure — the kind of character whose weight in a story far exceeds her page count. She shares her stories with some of Marvel's most consequential names: Magneto, Charles Xavier, Magda Lehnsherr, and Wanda Maximoff, placing her at the very heart of a saga that has defined the X-Men universe for generations. For collectors and readers who love digging into the emotional bedrock beneath Marvel's mutant mythology, Anya Lensherr is a name worth seeking out.