Carter Ryking

Carter Ryking stepped into the Marvel Universe in 2008's X-Men: Legacy #211, a Modern Age creation from the sharp collaborative minds of Mike Carey, Scot Eaton, and Brandon Peterson — a series celebrated for digging deep into Marvel's mutant mythology. With a catalog presence that stretches all the way to 2024, this character has quietly endured across sixteen years, turning up in corners of the Marvel universe as eclectic as Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider and X-Men '97. The company Carter keeps is genuinely impressive — sharing pages with the likes of Gambit and Storm speaks to a character woven into consequential mutant storytelling, even if their overall appearance count remains tantalizingly slim, the kind of figure that rewards the dedicated reader who goes looking.