The Rose

The Rose is a mysterious criminal figure operating in the shadowy underworld of Marvel's New York, crossing paths with Spider-Man during the late-1990s era of tangled gang politics and masked identities that defined that period's Spider-Man storylines.

Emerging from the tangled web of Marvel's late-1990s Spider-Man universe, The Rose debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #422, brought to life by the creative team of Tom DeFalco and Joe Bennett. This is a character who keeps genuinely compelling company — sharing pages with Spider-Man, Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson-Parker, and the likes of Jake Conover and Chesbro across titles like Spider-Man: Identity Crisis and The Amazing Spider-Man '97. With a presence that stretched across roughly fifteen years into 2012, The Rose carved out a modest but persistent niche in Spidey's corner of the Marvel universe. A focused collector chasing the deeper cuts of the Modern Age Spider-Man mythos will find this one a rewarding thread to pull.