Officer Tompkins

Stepping out of the wonderfully weird Bronze Age Marvel landscape, Officer Tompkins made their debut in Giant-Size Man-Thing #5 in 1975, brought to life by the singular Steve Gerber and Ed Hannigan. It's a testament to the strange, anything-goes spirit of that era that this character shares comic real estate with the likes of Howard the Duck, Hellcow, Dracula, Captain America, and Valkyrie — as eclectic a roster of page-mates as Marvel has ever assembled. With appearances stretching across five decades and popping up in collected editions like the Giant-Size Marvel Omnibus, Officer Tompkins is a small but durable thread in Marvel's rich Bronze Age tapestry — the kind of character that rewards the curious collector who loves digging beneath the surface.