Rose Palermo

Rose Palermo made her entrance in one of the Copper Age's most memorable one-shots — the 1987 Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1, brought to life by writer James C. Owsley and artist Mark Bright in a story that put two of Marvel's biggest names on a collision course. With a catalog presence stretching all the way to 2010, she's a figure whose shadow lingers well beyond a single issue, surfacing again in Web of Spider-Man and the sprawling X-Men: Inferno Crossovers alongside a compelling roster that includes Spider-Man, Wolverine's world, and familiar faces like J. Jonah Jameson and Aunt May Parker. Three appearances may sound modest, but when one of them is a landmark key issue that fans and collectors have been talking about for nearly four decades, Rose Palermo is absolutely worth seeking out.