Clint Barton

Orphaned young and raised in a circus, Clint Barton trained under the marksman Trick Shot to become a world-class archer. After initially clashing with Iron Man, he reformed and joined the Avengers as Hawkeye, later temporarily adopting the Goliath identity using Hank Pym's size-changing technology.

Few Marvel characters have earned their place at the table quite like Clint Barton — a street-level scrapper who debuted in Tales of Suspense #57 in 1964, conjured by Stan Lee and Don Heck at the height of the Silver Age, and has never stopped proving himself since. As a proud Avenger, he's spent six decades trading pages with the absolute titans of the Marvel Universe — Captain America, Iron Man, Thor — and somehow never gets lost in the shadow of gods and armored billionaires. With 1369 catalog appearances spanning from 1964 all the way to 2026 and 62 collector-recognized key issues to his name, his is one of the great long-game stories in comics, threading through The Avengers, Thunderbolts, and beyond. If you want a character who embodies the Marvel spirit of the underdog who simply refuses to quit, Clint Barton is absolutely worth your time.