Shagreen

Shagreen is a villain who debuted in Nightcrawler's 1985 solo limited series, opposing the X-Man alongside a swashbuckling, dimension-hopping adventure that also featured Kitty Pryde, Illyana Rasputina, and Lockheed.

Born from the imagination of Dave Cockrum in 1985, Shagreen made their Bronze Age Marvel debut in the pages of Nightcrawler #1 — a series that put one of the X-Men's most beloved figures front and center. Though Shagreen's catalog footprint is compact at six appearances, those pages place them in gloriously storied company: Nightcrawler himself, Kitty Pryde, Illyana Rasputina, and even the fan-favorite dragon Lockheed all share the adventure. The fact that Shagreen's debut has been preserved across prestigious collected editions like Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men and the Uncanny X-Men Omnibus speaks to the enduring significance of that original Cockrum run — and makes this a character worth tracking down for any serious Bronze Age Marvel collector.