Sphinx

Few villains carry themselves with the weight of ages quite like Sphinx, who stepped out of the Bronze Age and into Marvel's spotlight with a debut in The Man Called Nova #24 in 1979, courtesy of the formidable creative team of Marv Wolfman and Carmine Infantino. This enigmatic figure has crossed paths with some of Marvel's brightest heroes — Nova, Spider-Man, and others — across a span of titles that stretched into the mid-1990s. With appearances in The Man Called Nova and Spider-Man Comic alike, Sphinx proved capable of commanding attention across multiple corners of the Marvel Universe. A compact but compelling presence in the catalog, this is a character whose mystique rewards the curious collector willing to dig into the Bronze Age's most intriguing corners.