David Lawfers

A card-carrying member of Marvel's notorious Serpent Society, David Lawfers slithered onto the scene in 1988 courtesy of Mark Gruenwald and Tom Morgan in Captain America #337 — right in the thick of the Copper Age, when Gruenwald was doing some of his most inventive work on that title. Though his appearance count is modest, Lawfers has shown a quiet staying power, turning up across more than three decades in titles like Captain America and Avengers, sharing pages with the likes of Steve Rogers and fellow Society members Copperhead and Fer-de-Lance. For collectors who love the deep bench of Marvel's villain ecosystem, he's a satisfying piece of Gruenwald's richly populated world.