Phantome

A creature of the early '90s Marvel universe, Phantome materialized in the pages of Marvel Comics Presents in 1994, brought to life by creator Ed Lazellari in that anthology series that always had a knack for spotlighting the stranger corners of the Marvel cosmos. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a rare, fleeting figure — the kind of enigmatic character who shares shadowy pages with the likes of Vengeance, Michael Badilino, Namorita, and Gargantua, which tells you the world Phantome inhabits skews toward the dark and the dangerous. For collectors who love hunting down the overlooked and the obscure, a character this scarce and this atmospheric is exactly the kind of discovery that makes digging through quarter bins feel like striking gold.