Night Machine

Few characters make an entrance quite like Night Machine, who stepped out of the shadows in Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver's visionary S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 in 2010 — a Modern Age debut that dropped readers into one of Marvel's most ambitious, mind-bending series. Sharing pages with luminaries like Nikola Tesla, Howard Stark, Leonardo da Vinci, and Isaac Newton, Night Machine has kept extraordinarily rarefied company since the very beginning. The character's presence has extended into the recent G.O.D.S., signaling a staying power that belies a relatively slim appearance count — quality over quantity, as any seasoned collector knows. If you love Marvel at its most cosmically strange and intellectually daring, Night Machine is a name worth tracking down.