Le Garde

Born in the Bronze Age pages of Strange #99 (1978) — brought to life by the legendary Steve Gerber and Don Heck — Le Garde is a fascinating artifact of French-language Marvel publishing, a character whose adventures unfolded through Editions Lug across nearly a decade. With a catalog footprint that includes two collector-significant key issues, Le Garde punches well above their modest appearance count, sharing pages with the likes of Captain Marvel, Peter Parker, Natasha Romanoff, and La Veuve Noire across Strange and Ombrax-Saga. It's a rarefied kind of comics history — a Bronze Age creation that lived at the intersection of American Marvel storytelling and the vibrant Franco-Belgian publishing world — and for collectors who love digging into the corners of the Marvel universe where the maps get interesting, Le Garde is absolutely worth seeking out.