Mean

Stepping out of the Bronze Age pages of The Uncanny X-Men #153 — a collector-significant issue brought to life by the legendary team of Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, and Josef Rubinstein — Mean is a Marvel character whose very first appearance put them in extraordinarily colorful company, sharing the page with Nightcrawler, Colossus, and the impish Bamf. With a presence that has quietly persisted across an impressive four decades of Marvel publishing, Mean may be a rare find in the catalog, but that debut issue alone makes them worth tracking down. For fans who love digging into the deeper corners of X-Men lore, this is exactly the kind of discovery that makes collecting such a rewarding adventure.