Martin Fein

A compact but collector-notable presence from Marvel's late-1980s Copper Age, Martin Fein stepped onto the page in Strange Tales #1 (1987), courtesy of creators Peter Gillis and Chris Warner — and that debut alone carries key-issue weight for those who track such things. With only a handful of appearances to his name, Fein is very much a figure of a specific, atmospheric moment in Marvel history, one where Strange Tales was doing some of its most intriguing street-level and supernatural storytelling. The company he keeps is genuinely impressive: his pages are shared with the likes of Tyrone Johnson, Tandy Bowen, Cloak, Dagger, and Doctor Strange himself, placing Fein at the intersection of Marvel's mystical and urban underworld corners. A rare find for the dedicated completist.