The Fallen

Emerging from the dark, supernatural corners of Marvel's early '90s, The Fallen debuted in the pages of Ghost Rider / Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance #17 in 1993, courtesy of Howard Mackie and Henry Martinez — a creative team well-versed in Marvel's more shadowy corners. With a presence that carried into the alternate-reality drama of Mutant X, this character shares comic real estate with some heavy hitters — Warren Worthington III, Alex Summers, Bobby Drake, and the eerie Bloodstorm among them. Rare enough to qualify as a genuine deep-cut with only a handful of catalogued appearances, The Fallen is exactly the kind of brooding Copper/Modern Age figure that rewards curious collectors willing to dig past the mainstream.