Dangard Ace

A giant robot stomping into Marvel's Bronze Age, Dangard Ace made a memorable entrance in The Defenders #69 in 1979, brought to life by the creative trio of Jim Shooter, Mary Jo Duffy, and Herb Trimpe. With appearances spread across both The Defenders and Godzilla, this colossal figure clearly had a taste for the biggest stages Marvel had to offer, sharing those pages with heavy hitters like Mr. Fantastic and the inimitable Dum Dum Dugan, not to mention fellow mechanical titan Raydeen and Combatra. Rare in the catalog with only four appearances, Dangard Ace is a wonderfully specific piece of late-'70s Marvel history — the kind of discovery that reminds you just how gloriously wide the Bronze Age's imagination could stretch.