Saxaphone

Born in the wild, visually inventive pages of Ann Nocenti and Arthur Adams's Longshot #4 in 1985, Saxaphone is a Bronze Age Marvel curiosity who emerged from one of that era's most imaginative and offbeat limited series. With only a handful of catalogued appearances, this is a rare background figure whose world is defined by the extraordinary company kept — sharing issues with the likes of Spiral, Mojo, and Ricochet Rita in a corner of Marvel that crackled with surreal energy and artistic ambition. Collectors drawn to the deep cuts of the Longshot mythos and its legacy in Uncanny X-Men collections will find Saxaphone a genuine piece of Bronze Age atmosphere, a small thread in a richly strange tapestry that has endured in reprint form for nearly four decades.