Ed Wheeler

Few corners of Marvel's Bronze Age are as delightfully offbeat as U.S. 1, the 1983 trucking-themed series conjured by Al Milgrom and Herb Trimpe — and Ed Wheeler is part of the colorful cast that makes it tick. Sharing the open road with characters like U.S. Archer, Wide-Load Annie, and Poppa Wheelie, Ed inhabits one of Marvel's most charmingly niche experiments, a book that leaned hard into the CB-radio, big-rig culture of its era. With only eleven catalog appearances concentrated in that brief 1983–1984 window, he's a genuine piece of Bronze Age curiosity — the kind of supporting player that rewards the collector who digs deeper than the mainstream. If you've got a soft spot for Marvel's stranger back-roads, Ed Wheeler is worth the detour.