Wendigo

A Canadian man was transformed into the Wendigo — a massive, white-furred beast of Algonquian legend — after resorting to cannibalism in the wilderness. The curse condemns its bearer to become this savage, near-mindless creature of immense strength.

Few creatures in the Marvel Universe carry the raw, primal menace of Wendigo, the fearsome beast who stalked onto the scene in The Incredible Hulk #181 in 1974 — one of the most celebrated key issues in Bronze Age collecting, the very same legendary issue that introduced Wolverine to the world. Conjured by writer Len Wein and artist Herb Trimpe, this towering horror has haunted Marvel's wilderness corners for over five decades, sharing pages with titans like the Hulk, Logan, and Bruce Banner. Wendigo's appearances across titles like Amazing X-Men and Astonishing Tales prove this is no one-off monster, but a enduring fixture of Marvel's darker, more savage mythology. If you love the wild, untamed edge of Bronze Age Marvel, Wendigo is absolutely worth tracking down.