Bishop Octopus

A wild card from the Spider-Verse's ever-expanding multiverse of oddballs, Bishop Octopus crashed onto the scene in 2022's Edge of Spider-Verse #4, conjured by Jordan Blum and Michael Shelfer during Marvel's Modern Age love affair with strange new corners of the web. With only a handful of catalog appearances spread across Edge of Spider-Verse and Spider-Society, this is a rare, tantalizing figure — the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through the Spider-Verse such a rewarding obsession. Sharing pages with the likes of Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Sun-Spider, and Princess Petra, Bishop Octopus clearly runs in extraordinary company, and for collectors who prize the offbeat and the fresh, that debut issue is well worth tracking down.