Velmax

Velmax is a shape-shifting Skrull who infiltrated 1950s America, eventually adopting a human identity and becoming one of the unrecorded heroes operating in the gap between the Golden Age and the Fantastic Four's debut, as revealed in Marvel: The Lost Generation.

Roger Stern and John Byrne introduced Velmax to Marvel readers in 2000 as part of the ambitious Marvel: The Lost Generation — a series that excavated the hidden history of Marvel's heroic ages, telling stories that had always existed just off the edge of the map. Velmax moves through that richly layered world in the company of fascinating figures like Effigy, the Eternal Brain, Black Fox, and Pixie, a roster that speaks to just how eclectic and inventive that series' vision of Marvel's past truly was. With an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Book of the Dead, Velmax carries the weight of a character whose story has a definitive shape — rare and worth seeking out for any collector drawn to the corners of Marvel history that most readers never knew to look for.