Patch

Born in the thick of Marvel's Silver Age golden run, Patch made their debut in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #26 (1965), courtesy of the legendary creative duo Stan Lee and Steve Ditko — as iconic a birthright as comics can offer. Fourteen catalog appearances across nearly six decades speak to a quiet but persistent presence in the Marvel universe, with two of those issues carrying genuine key-issue status for collectors. Patch keeps rarefied company, sharing pages with Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, Frederick Foswell, Flash Thompson, and the wall-crawler himself. A character woven into the foundational fabric of early Amazing Spider-Man — if you're diving deep into Ditko-era Marvel, Patch is exactly the kind of discovery that rewards the dedicated reader.