Tony Yarg

A delightful denizen of Marvel's beloved funny-animal universe, Tony Yarg made his debut in 1985's Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham #3, conjured up by Steve Skeates and Mark Armstrong during the tail end of the Bronze Age. With only four catalogued appearances, he's a rare find — the kind of background character that makes deep-diving into Spider-Ham's pun-filled world such a joy for collectors. He shares those anarchic pages with the likes of Spider-Ham himself, J. Jeremiah Jackal Jr., and Bunsen Bunny, a rogues' gallery of gloriously groan-worthy animal stand-ins that defined one of Marvel's most gleefully offbeat corners of the '80s. If you love the weird, wonderful margins of Marvel history, Tony Yarg is exactly the sort of obscure gem worth tracking down.