Freakout

Freakout burst onto the Marvel scene in 1987, a product of the Copper Age's taste for edgy, offbeat additions to the superhero landscape, courtesy of creators Bill Mantlo and Terry Shoemaker. With only four catalog appearances, all within the pages of Alpha Flight, this is a rare and fleeting figure — the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes longtime Marvel readers feel like true insiders. Sharing those issues with the likes of Sasquatch, Box, and Goblyn Dean places Freakout squarely in one of Marvel's most distinctive corners, where Canada's strangest heroes roamed. Brief as the run may be, that debut in Alpha Flight #48 is a genuine collector's footnote worth tracking down.