Basilisk

A creature of Marvel's Bronze Age horror boom, Basilisk slithered onto the scene in 1976's Marvel Preview #7, conjured by the formidable team of Chris Claremont and Vicente Alcázar. This is a character steeped in the eerie, pulp-magazine atmosphere that Marvel embraced in that era, sharing shadowy pages with the likes of Satana and Daimon Hellstrom — as dark and atmospheric a crowd as comics had to offer. With one key collector issue anchoring their legacy and appearances stretching all the way to 2024, Basilisk is a fascinating deep-cut figure whose Bronze Age roots have proven surprisingly durable across nearly five decades of Marvel horror.