Joyboy

Joyboy is a member of the Technet, a quirky band of intergalactic bounty hunters operating in Marvel's cosmic fringe, working alongside odd companions like Gatecrasher and Bodybag. He possesses the disturbing ability to make his victims experience their greatest joy — fatally.

Born from the imaginative partnership of Chris Claremont and Alan Davis in the pages of Excalibur Special Edition back in 1987, Joyboy is a Copper Age Marvel creation with a fittingly offbeat pedigree. Rubbing shoulders with the wonderfully strange likes of Gatecrasher, Bodybag, and Scatterbrain, this character clearly inhabits one of Marvel's more delightfully eccentric corners of the universe. Appearances across Excalibur and even Avengers speak to a surprising range for a figure with a relatively slim footprint — six catalog entries spread across nearly four decades. For collectors who love the quirky, character-rich world that Claremont and Davis built together, Joyboy is one of those hidden gems worth hunting down.