Remy LeBeau

Few Marvel characters have made an entrance quite like Remy LeBeau — debuting in X-Men Annual #14 in 1990, courtesy of Chris Claremont and Arthur Adams, this Cajun charmer arrived at the tail end of the Copper Age and never looked back. Over 36 years and 715 catalog appearances across Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, and his own Gambit solo series, he's proven himself one of the most enduring figures the X-Men have ever claimed as their own. With 15 key issues to his name, Remy's collected alongside some of Marvel's heaviest hitters — Wolverine, Rogue, and Storm among them — which says everything about the tier he occupies. Mysterious, magnetic, and impossible to put down once you've picked him up, Gambit is the rare character who rewards both the casual reader and the dedicated long-box digger equally.