Tara

Stepping out of Marvel's Bronze Age in 1974, Tara made her debut in Fear #20 under the creative hands of Mike Friedrich and Paul Gulacy — a distinctive origin for a character who would prove surprisingly durable, with appearances catalogued across nearly five decades. She moves through some genuinely rarefied Marvel company, sharing pages with the likes of Thor, Cyclops, and Captain Universe, and her strongest presence is felt in the mystic corners of the Marvel Universe, appearing most prominently in Doctor Strange collections and the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z. That handbook inclusion alone marks her as a character Marvel considered worth preserving in its official lore — a quiet badge of legitimacy for any Bronze Age figure. For collectors drawn to the stranger, more esoteric edges of the Marvel cosmos, Tara is exactly the kind of discovery that makes digging through back issues so rewarding.