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Dormouse
Dormouse

Dormouse

5 appearances · Bronze Age · 1981–2021
Who is Dormouse?

Dormouse is a minor character from the surreal, British-flavored world of Captain Britain, appearing alongside the reality-warping Mad Jim Jaspers and the Queen of Hearts — suggesting a Lewis Carroll-inspired cast of eccentrics populating that corner of the Marvel Universe.

Dormouse is a curious little piece of Bronze Age Marvel mythology, stepping onto the page in 1981 courtesy of the creative team of Paul Neary, Dave Thorpe, and Alan Davis — the same visionary minds who were busy crafting some of the most inventive and distinctly British comics of the era. Nestled within the wonderfully offbeat world of Captain Britain, this character keeps genuinely wild company: the reality-warping Mad Jim Jaspers, the enigmatic Queen of Hearts, and Captain Britain himself. With appearances catalogued across four decades, Dormouse may be a rare presence in the Marvel universe, but for collectors and devotees of that gloriously strange corner of British Marvel, even five appearances carry real weight — a small, treasured thread woven into one of the most imaginative tapestries the Bronze Age produced.

Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes]
#377
★ First appearance
Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #377
Sep 1981

Top series

Covers through the years — 2002–2021

Captain Britain #[nn] 2002
Captain Britain #[nn]
Captain Britain Omnibus #[nn] 2021
Captain Britain Omnibus #[nn]

Appearances

Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (1979)
X-Men Archives Featuring Captain Britain (1995)
#1
Captain Britain (2002)
X-Men: Phoenix Force Handbook (2010)
Captain Britain Omnibus (2021)