Professor Slaughter

Few characters carry a name as memorably sinister as Professor Slaughter, who stalked onto the Bronze Age Marvel scene in 1974's Man-Thing #2, conjured by the wickedly inventive Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. This is a figure born from one of Marvel's strangest, most atmospheric corners — the swampy, surreal world of Man-Thing — where he shares the murky pages with Ted Sallis, Richard Rory, and the unforgettable F. A. Schist. Though his catalog footprint is compact, spanning appearances across Man-Thing and The Savage She-Hulk and preserved for new generations in Gerber's celebrated complete collection, that name alone announces someone worth tracking down — a genuine piece of Bronze Age Marvel weirdness with a villain's pedigree baked right in.