Dontrell ‘Cockroach’ Hamilton

Dontrell 'Cockroach' Hamilton is a street-level criminal and recurring adversary of Luke Cage, operating in the gritty urban underworld of Marvel's New York. He is notorious for wielding a six-barreled shotgun nicknamed 'Josh.'

Dontrell 'Cockroach' Hamilton slithered out of the gritty Bronze Age streets of Marvel's 1976 Power Man #30, a creation of Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, and Arvell Jones that planted him firmly in the rough-and-tumble corner of the Marvel Universe where Luke Cage and Danny Rand operate. The nickname alone tells you everything about his staying power — this is a character built to survive — and sure enough he's kept turning up across nearly five decades, from the pages of Black Panther to House of M: Avengers, sharing panels with some of street-level Marvel's most iconic figures. He's the kind of deep-cut Bronze Age fixture that rewards the curious collector: not a headliner, but a persistent, atmospheric piece of Marvel's urban tapestry with a debut issue worth tracking down.