Janus

Brief but intriguing, Janus stepped onto the Marvel stage in 1987 courtesy of creators Bill Mantlo and Terry Shoemaker, making a Copper Age entrance in the pages of Alpha Flight — one of Marvel's most distinctive team books of the era. With only a handful of catalog appearances concentrated in a tight 1987–1988 window, this is a character whose story burned fast and bright, sharing the page with heavy hitters like Sasquatch, Box, and Goblyn Dean. For collectors who love hunting down the overlooked corners of Marvel's Copper Age, Janus is exactly the kind of find that makes deep-diving back-issue bins so rewarding.