Claude Starkowitz

A minor but memorable corner of Marvel's wonderfully weird Bronze Age, Claude Starkowitz steps onto the page in the anarchic world of Howard the Duck — Bill Mantlo and Gene Colan's gloriously offbeat 1979 run. With only a handful of appearances to his name, Claude is the kind of character who exists in that rich, strange ecosystem populated by the likes of Howard himself, Beverly Switzler, and even the shambling Man-Thing. Rare, quirky, and thoroughly Bronze Age Marvel — exactly the sort of deep-cut discovery that makes flipping through back issues such a joy.