Hobie Brown

Hobie Brown turns up in the pages of Panini Deutschland's Der sensationelle Spider-Man — a late-1990s German-market publication that brought Marvel's web-slinging world to a new readership. Debuting in 1999 in an era when Spider-Man's universe was as richly populated as ever, this version of the character shares his pages with the likes of Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, and the Prowler, placing him squarely in that familiar, street-level corner of the Marvel cosmos. With only a handful of catalog appearances across Der sensationelle Spider-Man and Spider-Man Komplett, he's a rarity — the kind of find that reminds collectors just how wide and wonderfully varied the international Spider-Man publishing world truly was.