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Dark Reaver

Dark Reaver

3 appearances · Bronze Age · 1981–2021
Who is Dark Reaver?

Few characters carry a name as evocative as Dark Reaver, a Bronze Age Marvel creation conjured by the legendary team of Len Wein and Sal Buscema when they debuted the character in Marvel Tales #132 in 1981. With a catalog presence that stretches all the way to 2021, this figure has quietly persisted across four decades of Marvel history — a testament to the enduring pull of a well-crafted Bronze Age original. Dark Reaver keeps striking company, sharing pages with Spider-Man, Captain Britain, and the enigmatic Lady of the Northern Skies, which speaks to a character woven into some genuinely compelling corners of the Marvel universe. Rare appearances can make a character all the more intriguing, and for collectors with a taste for the deep cuts of Bronze Age Marvel, Dark Reaver is exactly the kind of discovery worth chasing down.

★ First appearance
Marvel Tales #132
Oct 1981

Top series

Covers through the years — 1981–2021

Marvel Tales #132 1981
Marvel Tales #132
Captain Britain Omnibus #[nn] 2021
Captain Britain Omnibus #[nn]

Appearances

Marvel Tales (1966)
Captain Britain Omnibus (2021)