Taskmaster

A villain sharp enough to share pages with Spider-Man and some of the web-slinger's most dangerous foes, this incarnation of Taskmaster arrived in 1999 through the hands of Peter Milligan, Frank Borsch, and Mike Deodato Jr. in Panini Deutschland's Marvel Special — a German-market publishing line that brought Marvel's world to a whole new readership. Rubbing shoulders with the likes of Otto Octavius and Electro, Taskmaster fits right into the high-stakes, supervillain-packed corner of the Marvel universe that has kept fans hooked for decades. It's a compact but characterful catalog presence that speaks to just how far Marvel's iconic antagonists have traveled across borders and languages.