Mister Jip

Born from the imagination of Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom in 1987's Marvel Age Annual #3, Mister Jip is one of the Copper Age's more intriguing figures lurking in Marvel's shadows — a villain whose path crosses most memorably with Cloak and Dagger, sharing those dark, street-level pages alongside Tandy Bowen, Cloak himself, and even Iceman and Susan Storm Richards. His appearances are few but pointed, concentrated in The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger and collected in the beloved Cloak and Dagger Omnibus, making him a character whose significance outweighs his page count. With a key issue already to his name and a presence that has endured across an impressive 34 years in the catalog, Mister Jip is exactly the kind of deep-cut Marvel menace that rewards the curious collector willing to dig into one of the Bronze-to-Copper transition's most underappreciated corners.