Forrest Forsythe

A minor but memorable face in Marvel's landmark Transformers run, Forrest Forsythe stepped onto the page in 1986 — right in the thick of that era's explosive Copper Age energy — courtesy of writer Bob Budiansky and artist Don Perlin. With just four appearances concentrated in the late 1980s, he's a compact piece of the puzzle, but the company he keeps is anything but small: his issues brush up against the likes of Spider-Man, Peter Parker, Shockwave, and Buster Witwicky, placing him squarely in the rich, sprawling human drama that made Marvel's Transformers saga so much more than a toy tie-in. For collectors who love hunting down every thread of that original run, Forsythe is one of those quietly rewarding discoveries hiding in plain sight.