Jim Salicrup

Jim Salicrup is a Marvel Comics in-joke character — a fictional version of real-life Marvel editor Jim Salicrup inserted into the Marvel Universe, a playful Bronze Age tradition of editors and creators cameo-appearing as background characters within their own titles.

A fun piece of Marvel Bronze Age trivia come to life, Jim Salicrup made his first appearance in the pages of Marvel Two-in-One #54 in 1979, brought into being by the creative powerhouse team of Gruenwald, Macchio, Byrne, and Sinnott. With a modest but meaningful footprint across titles like Solo Avengers, Tales of G.I. Joe, and Marvel Two-in-One, this character moves through some genuinely storied corners of the Marvel universe, sharing pages with heavy-hitters like Cyclops, Phoenix, and Hank McCoy. Two of those seven catalog appearances carry key-issue status, making Salicrup a small but collector-notable name — the kind of deep-cut discovery that reminds you just how richly populated the Bronze Age Marvel world truly was.