The Orb

Few villains make an entrance quite like The Orb, who crashed onto the Bronze Age Marvel scene in 1973 courtesy of Len Wein and Ross Andru in Marvel Team-Up #15 — sharing those early pages with the likes of Spider-Man and Johnny Blaze. That debut alone gives this character serious vintage credibility, and the fact that The Orb's presence stretches all the way to Original Sin in 2014 means over four decades of Marvel history connect back to that single issue. Catalogued here through Marvel UK's Chiller Pocket Book, The Orb is one of those delightfully offbeat corners of the Marvel universe that rewards the curious collector who digs past the headliners.