Xaphan

Emerging from the darkest corners of Marvel's horror output in 1991, Xaphan is a creature of the Copper/Modern Age, born into the blood-soaked pages of Hellraiser Nightbreed – Jihad under the pen of D. G. Chichester and the haunting art of Paul Johnson. With only a handful of catalogued appearances, Xaphan is a rare and elusive figure — the kind of shadowy presence that serious horror collectors treasure precisely because of their scarcity — sharing grim company with icons like Pinhead, Elliott Spencer, and the nightmarish Chatterer across some of the era's most atmospheric comics. If you're drawn to the feverish, Clive Barker-inflected horror that Marvel dared to publish in the early nineties, Xaphan is exactly the obscure gem worth hunting down.