Ross Everbest

Stepping out of the swampy Bronze Age mists of Marvel's Man-Thing #3 in 1974, Ross Everbest is one of those quietly compelling figures who haunt the edges of Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik's memorably strange corner of the Marvel Universe. Keeping company with the likes of Foolkiller, Richard Rory, and the shambling Man-Thing himself, Everbest inhabits a world that was never quite like anything else Marvel was publishing at the time — weird, literary, and genuinely unsettling. With appearances stretching across four decades and turns in series as eclectic as Planet of the Apes and Book of the Dead, there's a durability to this character that rewards the curious collector willing to dig into Marvel's more offbeat Bronze Age catalog.