Phil

A minor but memorable corner of Marvel's sprawling anthology tapestry, Phil debuted in Marvel Comics Presents #152 in 1994 — right at the cusp of the Copper and Modern Ages — courtesy of creators Chuck Dixon and J. J. Birch. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Phil is the kind of compact, supporting presence that gives Marvel's anthology format its texture, sharing pages with heavy hitters like Logan, War Machine, and Tyger Tiger. If you're a devoted Marvel Comics Presents completist with an eye for the overlooked figures that populate the margins of bigger stories, Phil is a small but genuine piece of that mid-'90s Marvel mosaic.