Desmond Drew

Stepping out of the Bronze Age Marvel cosmos in 1974, Desmond Drew made his debut in Strange Tales #173, conjured into existence by the legendary team of Len Wein and Gene Colan at the height of Marvel's love affair with the supernatural. His world is a shadowy one — he shares his pages with the likes of Brother Voodoo, Black Talon, and Mama Limbo, a roster that tells you everything about the eerie, voodoo-tinged corner of the Marvel universe he inhabits. Though his catalog footprint is modest, the fact that he resurfaces across nearly five decades — touching titles as varied as Captain America, Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, and the Bendis Avengers era — speaks to a quietly persistent presence in Marvel's stranger precincts. For collectors who love digging into the atmospheric Bronze Age roots of Marvel's mystical side, Desmond Drew is exactly the kind of discovery that makes the hunt worthwhile.