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Queen Zartra
5 appearances · Bronze Age · 1973–2021
Who is Queen Zartra?
Born in the Bronze Age imagination of Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik, Queen Zartra made her Marvel debut in Fear #15 in 1973 — a striking entrance into a decade that loved its bold, mythic figures. Her appearances have quietly persisted across nearly five decades, surfacing most prominently in the mystic corridors of Doctor Strange collections, where she keeps extraordinary company: Thor, Spider-Man, She-Hulk, and Victor Von Doom have all shared pages with her. Rare in the catalog but genuinely intriguing, she's exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that reminds collectors why digging past the headliners is always worth it.

★ First appearance
Fear #15
Top series
Covers through the years — 1973–2021
1973
1989
1991
2017
2021 Appearances
Fear (1970)
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964)
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988)
Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme Omnibus (2017)
Doctor Strange Epic Collection (2016)




