Jakal

Born in the pages of Marvel Age Annual #1 in 1985, Jakal is a Bronze Age Marvel creation brought to life by a remarkable collaborative quartet — Jim Shooter, Kurt Busiek, James Fry, and Al Milgrom — whose combined talents gave this character a genuinely distinctive debut. Though appearances in the catalog are rare, Jakal moves in rarefied company: sharing pages with the likes of Iron Man, Captain America, Warlock, and Franklin Richards across titles including Power Pack and Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange, which speaks to a quietly eventful corner of the Marvel Universe. Two of those handful of appearances carry key-issue status, making Jakal a compelling little puzzle for the dedicated collector — a character whose scarcity only sharpens the intrigue across a publishing footprint that somehow stretches all the way to 2021.