Skull the Slayer

Jim Scully is a Vietnam veteran and ex-prisoner of war who, along with a group of strangers, becomes trapped in a mysterious time-lost land populated by dinosaurs and other prehistoric dangers after their plane passes through a strange atmospheric anomaly.

Few characters announce themselves quite like Skull the Slayer, who crashed onto the Bronze Age Marvel scene in 1975 courtesy of Marv Wolfman and Steve Gan — a debut that earned him his very own self-titled series right out of the gate. He's a cult figure in the truest sense, the kind of pulpy, hard-edged Marvel creation that defined an era of bold experimentation, and his footprint stretches across an impressive forty-plus years of publication history. His adventures have placed him in some rarefied company — sharing pages with powerhouses like The Thing, Reed Richards, and the wider Marvel universe — and his appearances in Marvel Two-in-One and even Secret Wars tie him into the broader tapestry of Marvel lore in ways that reward the curious reader. If you love digging into the deeper corners of the House of Ideas, Skull the Slayer is exactly the kind of find that makes collecting so endlessly rewarding.