Zhib-Ran

Zhib-Ran made their Marvel UK debut in 1983's Super Spider-Man TV Comic #531, stepping onto the Bronze Age stage courtesy of Marv Wolfman and C. Infantino. With a catalog trail stretching nearly four decades — touching titles as varied as Thunderbolts and X-Force — this is a character whose reach quietly extended well beyond their British origins. Along the way, Zhib-Ran has shared pages with some of Marvel's heaviest hitters: Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hyperion, and Ben Grimm himself, which is rarefied company by any measure. A rare find for the dedicated collector, Zhib-Ran is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through longboxes so rewarding.