Henry "Tubby" Tinkle

Debuting in the pages of Captain America Comics #5 in 1941 — brought to life by the legendary trio of Stan Lee, Joe Simon, and Jack Kirby — Henry "Tubby" Tinkle is a genuine Golden Age Marvel curiosity, a minor figure who nonetheless shares his earliest pages with some of the most iconic names in comics history, including Captain America and Bucky Barnes. His presence across titles like Marvel Mystery Comics and into Captain America: Forever Allies hints at a surprisingly long thread through Marvel's publishing history, stretching an improbable seven decades from the wartime Golden Age to 2011. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Tubby is the kind of deep-cut discovery that reminds devoted collectors just how richly populated the corners of classic Marvel really are — a small name with a wonderfully outsized Golden Age charm.