Matilda von Tromp

A Bronze Age curiosity with genuine Marvel pedigree, Matilda von Tromp made her debut in 1976's Marvel Treasury Edition #12, conjured by the wildly imaginative Steve Gerber and artist Sal Buscema in the oversized, anything-goes spirit that made Bronze Age Marvel so deliriously fun. Her small but notable footprint stretches across four decades of Marvel history, earning her a place in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z — the kind of canonization reserved for characters worth remembering. She keeps remarkable company, sharing pages with Iron Man, Valkyrie, and the wonderfully named Tillie the Hun, which tells you something about the gloriously eccentric corner of the Marvel universe she inhabits.