Vermin

A creature of shadows and skittering dread, Vermin crawled onto the page in 1997's Spider-Man Special #2, brought to life by the creative team of J. M. DeMatteis, Reinhard Schweizer, and Mark Bagley under the Panini Deutschland banner. This is a character whose catalog footprint is small but whose company is anything but — sharing pages with Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and the fearsome Kraven der Jäger across titles like Marvel Exklusiv and Spider-Man Special. With nearly three decades of publication history stretching from 1997 to 2024, Vermin has proven a quietly persistent presence in the German-language Marvel landscape. A niche find for the dedicated collector, this is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through international editions so rewarding.