Chester Weems

Bronze Age Marvel had a wild sense of humor, and Chester Weems is a small but genuine piece of that irreverent spirit — debuting in Crazy Magazine #63 in 1980, courtesy of Roger Stern and Vicente Alcázar, in the pages of Marvel's beloved comedy anthology. With a catalog footprint that stretches surprisingly from 1980 all the way to a Secret Wars: Official Guide to the Marvel Multiverse appearance in 2015, Chester clearly left enough of an impression to earn a place in Marvel's grand cosmological reckoning. Sharing pages with the likes of Obnoxio the Clown, Teen Hulk, Godzilla, and Dracula tells you everything about the gloriously chaotic neighborhood this character calls home. Rare, quirky, and touched by the anything-goes energy of Crazy Magazine at its peak — Chester Weems is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through Bronze Age back issues such a joy.