Kray-Tor

Kray-Tor made their entrance in the cosmic corner of the Marvel Universe with Strange Tales #180 in 1975, stepping into one of the most ambitious Bronze Age sagas Jim Starlin was weaving through the stars. With only six catalogued appearances, this is a rare and select figure — yet two of those land as key collector issues, which speaks to the charged, consequential company Kray-Tor keeps: Adam Warlock, Gamora, Thanos, and Pip the Troll are among the cosmic heavyweights sharing those pages. The character's footprint spans an impressive near-five decades and touches titles as varied as Marvel Two-in-One Annual and Rune, making Kray-Tor a tantalizing deep-cut for anyone tracing the grand, galaxy-spanning mythology Starlin built in the Bronze Age and beyond — small in number of appearances, but rooted in some of Marvel's most legendary cosmic soil.