Mel Katz

A minor but memorable face from Marvel's Bronze Age, Mel Katz stepped onto the page in 1975's Creatures on the Loose #34, brought to life by the legendary creative pairing of David Kraft and a young George Pérez. With only a handful of appearances to their name, Mel occupies a small but genuine corner of a series that was home to some wild, genre-bending storytelling — sharing those pages with the likes of Man-Wolf, John Jameson, Simon Stroud, and even J. Jonah Jameson himself. For collectors who love hunting down early Pérez work and the wonderfully offbeat Bronze Age Marvel universe, Mel Katz is exactly the kind of background gem that makes digging through back issues so rewarding.