Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte, the historical French emperor and military genius who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century, appears in Marvel comics as a historical figure — depicted across war, history, and anthology titles alongside other world leaders and conquerors.

Few historical figures have haunted the comic page quite like Napoleon Bonaparte, who made his four-color debut all the way back in 1904 — squarely in the Platinum Age, when the medium itself was still finding its footing. Eastern Color brought him into the catalog, and across a remarkable 120-year span he's turned up in titles as varied as Famous Funnies, Judge, and Battle, sharing panels with towering figures like George Washington, Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Adolf Hitler — the kind of company that signals a character deployed whenever comics want to wrestle with history, power, and legacy. With 23 catalog appearances stretching from the earliest days of American comics to the present, Napoleon is a genuinely rare specimen: a real-world icon whose comic-book life is a fascinating lens on how each successive era reimagined the past.