Jude the Entropic Man

Few characters carry a name as cosmically ominous as Jude the Entropic Man, who crashed into the Marvel Universe in 1978's Marvel Two-in-One #42, conjured by Ralph Macchio, Sal Buscema, and Alfredo Alcala during comics' rich Bronze Age. With only a handful of catalog appearances spread across a striking 23-year span — touching both Marvel Two-in-One and the ambitious Paradise X Special Edition — Jude is the very definition of a rare, deep-cut Marvel figure whose presence clearly left an impression well beyond his debut. He shares his pages with heavy hitters like Captain America, Steve Rogers, and Ben Grimm (the ever-lovable Thing), which tells you this is no background player — when Jude shows up, the big guns take notice. For collectors hunting the genuinely unusual corners of the Marvel Bronze Age, this is exactly the kind of enigmatic, evocatively named character worth tracking down.