Friedrich von Roehm

Friedrich von Roehm is one of those intriguing figures lurking at the shadowy edges of Marvel's Bronze Age — introduced in 1985 by the legendary team of Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr. in The Uncanny X-Men, he moves through a remarkable tangle of affiliations, counted among the Hellfire Club, the X-Men, and the Morlocks. He keeps genuinely rarefied company — Sebastian Shaw, the Black Queen, Colossus, Ororo Munroe, and Logan have all shared pages with him — and the fact that two of his handful of appearances carry key-issue status makes him the kind of discovery that rewards a deep-diving collector. With a presence that has persisted across nearly four decades of Marvel history, von Roehm is a testament to the rich, layered world Claremont built around the X-Men mythos.