Jacques Duquesne

Jacques Duquesne is the French-language edition identity of the Swordsman, a Marvel Comics villain-turned-antihero who became a master of blade-based combat and served as an early mentor to Hawkeye before his complicated history with the Avengers began.

A fixture of the French-language Marvel universe as published by Semic S.A., Jacques Duquesne made his catalog debut in 1982's Les Vengeurs — a Bronze Age entry point into stories that place him squarely alongside some of Marvel's heaviest hitters: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Wanda Maximoff. His appearances stretch across an impressive 36-year span, touching titles as varied as Captain Marvel - La vie de Captain Marvel and the celebratory Best of Marvel : mariages Marvel. For collectors of Franco-Belgian Marvel editions, he's a name that quietly threads through some of the most iconic company those pages have to offer.