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Count Tagar

Count Tagar

10 appearances · Silver Age · 1966–2012 · 1 key issues
Who is Count Tagar?

Count Tagar is a man-beast created by the High Evolutionary on Wundagore Mountain, one of the New Men evolved from animal stock into humanoid form. He serves as a loyal lieutenant within the High Evolutionary's knights, reflecting the pinnacle of that eugenics-driven experiment.

Count Tagar is a Marvel figure who stepped onto the Silver Age stage in 1966, introduced in the legendary pages of Thor #133 by the incomparable team of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Sol Brodsky — as auspicious a debut as the era could offer. Over a remarkable publishing span stretching nearly five decades, this enigmatic character has kept extraordinary company, sharing adventures with Thor himself, the High Evolutionary, and the warrior Hogun across titles like Thor, Defenders, and Marvel Spectacular. With a key-issue appearance to his name and a presence that endured from the psychedelic heights of the Silver Age well into the modern era, Count Tagar is the kind of deep-catalog Marvel discovery that rewards the curious collector willing to dig past the headliners.

Teams & affiliations
Warriors ThreeRigelliansAsgardian Gods
★ First appearance
Thor #133
Oct 1966

Top series

Covers through the years — 1966–2011

Thor #134 1966
Thor #134
Marvel Spectacular #5 1974
Marvel Spectacular #5
Thor #406 1989
Thor #406
Thor: The Black Galaxy Saga #[nn] 2011
Thor: The Black Galaxy Saga #[nn]

Appearances

Marvel Spectacular (1973)
#5
Marvels: Portraits (1995)
#2
Thor: The Black Galaxy Saga (2011)
Defenders (2012)
#2