Roger Bochs

Roger Bochs was a brilliant inventor who designed and built the Box armor — a remotely operated robot he could mentally control — and used it to earn his place in Canada's government-sponsored superhero programs, rising from Beta Flight to Alpha Flight.

Roger Bochs made his entrance in the very first issue of Alpha Flight in 1983, part of John Byrne's landmark Bronze Age launch of Marvel's beloved Canadian super-team — and that debut alone earns him a place in any serious collector's conversation. A member of Alpha Flight from the ground up, he's woven into the fabric of one of Marvel's most distinctive team books, sharing pages across his run with powerhouses like Northstar, Aurora, Jeanne-Marie and Jean-Paul Beaubier, and the armored figure known as Box. With five key-issue appearances to his name and a publishing footprint stretching an impressive four decades — from Alpha Flight to Secret Wars II and beyond — Roger Bochs is the kind of character who rewards the reader who digs deeper into Marvel's rich Bronze Age roster.