Der Grüne Kobold

A creature of the Copper/Modern Age, Der Grüne Kobold burst onto the page in 1997 courtesy of Tom Peyer, Reinhard Schweizer, and Barry Kitson in Marvel DC Crossover #4 — a Panini Deutschland publication that already signals something delightfully offbeat about this character's corner of comics history. With only four catalog appearances spread across Spider-Man Special, Marvel DC Crossover, and Spider-Man, this is a rare and curious figure, sharing those pages with heavy-hitters like Spider-Man, Ben Reilly, Phil Urich, and Peter Parker. Scarcity is its own kind of mystique, and for the dedicated collector with a taste for the international and the unusual, Der Grüne Kobold is exactly the kind of find that makes digging through the long boxes worthwhile.