Tattoo

A product of Grant Morrison's boundary-pushing early-2000s reinvention of the X-Men line, Tattoo made their debut in New X-Men #134 in 2003 — one of the most creatively charged runs in modern Marvel history. This mutant student emerged from that fertile, strange era when Morrison and artist Keron Grant were populating the X-Men's world with unforgettable new faces, and two of Tattoo's handful of appearances carry genuine key-issue weight for collectors. Sharing those pages with heavy-hitters like Emma Frost, Cyclops, and the wonderfully bizarre Glob Herman speaks to the rich, offbeat corner of the Marvel universe Tattoo calls home — a small footprint, but a memorable one.