Veronica Langkowski

Stepping into Marvel's Canadian super-team saga during the Copper Age, Veronica Langkowski made her debut in Alpha Flight #59 in 1988, brought to life by the creative pairing of Bill Mantlo and a then-rising Jim Lee. Her appearances are few and genuinely rare, making each one a collector's find, and she shares those pages with some of Alpha Flight's most compelling figures — Heather Hudson, Box, Sasquatch, Vindicator, and the intriguingly similarly-named Walter Langkowski. Brief as her comics footprint may be, she's a fascinating corner of Marvel's northern universe, the kind of obscure gem that rewards the dedicated reader digging deep into late-'80s Alpha Flight lore.