Punchout

Bursting onto the scene in The Uncanny X-Men #235 in 1988, Punchout is a Copper Age Marvel creation from the celebrated partnership of Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi. As a card-carrying X-Men affiliate, this character moves in serious company — sharing pages with heavyweights like Storm, Psylocke, and Colossus — and has turned up across titles ranging from Uncanny X-Men to Fantastic Four over a surprisingly long span stretching into 2010. A rare find with only a handful of catalogued appearances, Punchout is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through the Claremont era so rewarding for devoted Marvel collectors.