Reverend Doctor Michael Ibn al-Hajj Achebe

Few Marvel villains arrive with as much menace packed into a name as Reverend Doctor Michael Ibn al-Hajj Achebe, who made his sinister entrance in Christopher Priest, Joe Quesada, and Mark Texeira's Black Panther #3 in 1999 — right at the dawn of Priest's celebrated, politically charged run on the title. A Modern Age creation through and through, Achebe orbits the world of Wakanda's greatest king, sharing pages with T'Challa himself, Captain America, and the Scarlet Witch, which speaks to the high-stakes company this character commands. Catalogued in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z, he's the kind of figure serious Black Panther readers know marks a genuinely dark chapter in Wakandan history — and any collector digging into Priest's landmark run will want to know exactly who they're dealing with when this Reverend Doctor steps onto the page.