The Mad Viking

Crashing into the Bronze Age Marvel Universe in 1975, The Mad Viking made his mark in the pages of Man-Thing, that gloriously strange Steve Gerber and John Buscema creation where the weird and the wonderful collided in the Florida swamps. Sharing those murky pages with Man-Thing himself alongside Ted Sallis, Richard Rory, and Astrid Josefsen, this character inhabits one of Marvel's most imaginatively offbeat corners. With only a handful of catalog appearances, The Mad Viking is the kind of deep-cut Bronze Age oddity that makes longtime collectors grin — a reminder of just how gloriously unpredictable Marvel storytelling could get in the seventies.