King Ardyon

A villain of the ancient Thurian Age, King Ardyon stepped onto the Bronze Age Marvel stage in 1975's Kull and the Barbarians #2, conjured by a remarkable creative team that included Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, and Alan Weiss, drawing on the pulp mythology of Robert E. Howard himself. Though his catalog footprint is small, the company he keeps is anything but — sharing pages with Kull, Red Sonja, and Solomon Kane marks him as a figure woven into the very heart of Howard's sword-and-sorcery world. His presence across collections as sweeping as Kull the Savage: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus ensures that this Bronze Age antagonist endures in the hands of collectors who know that even a brief appearance in the right story carries real weight.