Major Purge

Major Purge made their Marvel debut in The New Mutants Annual #4 in 1988, courtesy of Louise Simonson and June Brigman — stepping onto the page right in the thick of the Copper Age, when Marvel's annuals were must-read events rather than afterthoughts. With only a handful of catalogued appearances spread across nearly two and a half decades, this is a rare, elusive figure whose footprint runs through some genuinely weighty company — sharing pages with the likes of the High Evolutionary, Emma Frost, and Jonathan Drew across titles like The New Mutants Annual and X-Factor Annual. That kind of company alone marks Major Purge as a character worth hunting down, a deep-cut curiosity for collectors who love the corners of Marvel history that reward a little digging.