Espantalho

Espantalho made their Brazilian comics debut in 1985's Superaventuras Marvel #34 — a Bronze Age arrival brought to the page with Frank Miller's signature edge and local co-creator João Paulo Martins — and has been turning up in Panini Brasil's catalog ever since, across nearly four decades. This is a character whose company is genuinely electric: the same issues feature Capitão América, Homem de Ferro, the Tocha Humana, and the enigmatic Ebenezer Laughton, placing Espantalho squarely in the thick of Marvel's most charged encounters. Their appearances are concentrated in landmark publications like Atos de Vingança and Graphic Marvel, touchstones of Brazilian Marvel publishing that any serious collector will recognize. Rare in the catalog but rich in context, Espantalho is exactly the kind of discovery that reminds you why digging through a publisher's back catalog is always worth the effort.