Don Fortunato

A shadowy figure from the gritty late-'90s Spider-Man corner of Marvel's world, Don Fortunato made his presence felt in 1998, brought to life by Todd DeZago, Reinhard Schweizer, Sal Buscema, and John Stanisci. His brief but memorable run puts him in remarkably charged company — sharing pages with Spider-Man himself, the ever-tenacious Ben Urich, and the brutish Hammerhead, which tells you something about the dangerous criminal underworld he inhabits. With appearances spanning both the American Spider-Man series and the Panini Deutschland edition Der sensationelle Spider-Man, this Copper/Modern Age figure carries a genuinely international footprint for someone with only a handful of catalog entries. Small in number of appearances, but the company he keeps makes every one of them count.