Polyphemus

Drawn straight from the depths of Greek mythology and dropped into the Marvel Universe, Polyphemus made his four-color debut in the pages of Sub-Mariner #29 in 1970, courtesy of the legendary Silver Age team of Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema. Over a remarkable four-decade span, this ancient giant found himself sharing adventures with some of Marvel's most formidable figures — Hercules, Wolverine, and Logan among them — a roster that speaks to just how seamlessly the mythological and the superheroic collide in Marvel's storytelling tradition. His most notable spotlight comes in Wolverine / Hercules: Myths, Monsters & Mutants, a series that places him exactly where a creature of legend belongs: at the crossroads of old-world myth and modern Marvel mayhem. A rare find with only a handful of catalog appearances, Polyphemus is precisely the kind of deep-cut discovery that reminds collectors why the Silver Age was such a gloriously ambitious era for the House of Ideas.