The Nebbish

The Nebbish is a minor Marvel comedic character who debuted in the Bronze Age anthology title Astonishing Tales, crossing paths with monsters and antiheroes like Dracula, Godzilla, and Frankenstein's monster across humor-tinged stories in Astonishing Tales and Crazy Magazine.

Few characters make their home in quite such wild company as The Nebbish, a Marvel oddity who stepped onto the Bronze Age stage in Astonishing Tales #20 in 1973, conjured by the creative trio of Mike Friedrich, Marie Severin, and Werner Roth. Across a handful of appearances in Crazy Magazine and Astonishing Tales through the early 1980s, this curious figure rubbed elbows with some of the most iconic monsters and mavericks in comics — Dracula, Godzilla, Frankenstein's monster, and Luther Manning among them — which tells you something about the gloriously strange corner of the Marvel universe The Nebbish inhabits. With two of those rare appearances flagged as collector-significant key issues, this is a character whose modest page count punches well above its weight for the dedicated Bronze Age hunter.