Gorki

A creature of Cold War shadows, Gorki surfaced in the pages of Marvel's Tales to Astonish in 1966 — right in the thick of the Silver Age, when Stan Lee, Bill Everett, and Jerry Grandenetti were filling that anthology with some of the era's most charged, tension-soaked storytelling. With only a handful of appearances to his name, Gorki is the kind of rare, fleeting figure that serious collectors love to track down, a minor player whose very scarcity makes him a prize. He shares those crackling issues with heavy hitters like Bruce Banner, Rick Jones, Major Glenn Talbot, and the Prince of Atlantis himself, Namor — which tells you the stakes in his corner of the Marvel universe were anything but small.