Nicolette Giroux

Stepping onto the Marvel stage in 1999's Juggernaut #1 — courtesy of Joe Casey and Terry Shoemaker — Nicolette Giroux is a Modern Age figure whose debut dropped her into some genuinely heavy-hitting company, sharing pages with the likes of Conquest, Tempest, Decay, Stonecutter, and Yoshiro Hachiman. Her appearances stretch across a notable seventeen-year span, turning up in Avengers and Avengers Assemble and earning a spot in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z — that encyclopedic seal of approval that tells a collector this is a character worth cataloguing. Rare appearances can carry real mystique, and Nicolette Giroux is exactly the kind of deep-cut Marvel figure that rewards the dedicated reader willing to dig in.