Blackheath

Rooted in the fertile soil of Marvel's Modern Age, Blackheath made their entrance in Thunderbolts #74 in 2003, brought to life by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Chris Batista. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a rare and intriguing figure from the morally complex world of the Thunderbolts — a corner of the Marvel Universe where the line between hero and villain has always been gloriously blurred. Sharing pages with heavy hitters like Songbird, Moonstone, Atlas, and Fixer makes Blackheath a fascinating piece of that early-2000s era when the Thunderbolts mythos was at its most compelling and unpredictable. For collectors hunting the deeper cuts of Marvel's rogues' gallery and anti-hero landscape, Blackheath is exactly the kind of obscure gem worth tracking down.