Breakdown

Breakdown emerged from the fertile pages of Marvel's Alpha Flight in 1987, a Copper Age creation of writer Bill Mantlo and artist Terry Shoemaker during one of the series' most ambitious and experimental runs. With only a handful of catalog appearances concentrated in that late-'80s window, this is a character who burns bright and brief — the kind of fleeting, intriguing figure that makes deep-diving Alpha Flight back issues such a rewarding hunt. Sharing those pages with the likes of Box, Sasquatch, and Goblyn Dean puts Breakdown squarely in some genuinely wild, offbeat Marvel territory, and for collectors who love the stranger corners of the universe, that's recommendation enough.