Tantalus

Few villains arrive with the kind of dark gravity that Tantalus brought to Marvel's mid-nineties cosmic corner when Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz introduced him in Thunderstrike #5 in 1994. A Modern Age creation through and through, he carved out his menacing presence in the pages of Thunderstrike, sharing that charged world with the likes of Blackwulf, Eric Masterson, and Thunderstrike himself. His footprint across the catalog may be compact, but the fact that he earned a place in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z speaks to the lasting impression he made — a character deemed worthy of the official record. For collectors hunting the deeper cuts of nineties Marvel cosmic storytelling, Tantalus is exactly the kind of brooding discovery that makes digging through back issues so rewarding.