Curated playlist

Time travelers

MagikMagik, born Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina, appeared for the first time in the pages of Giant-Size X-Men #1 in May 1975. Writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum created her. For the next eight years, almost nobody noticed. She turned up now…
Cable (character)Cable, the grim time-traveling soldier of Marvel Comics, first reached readers as a rumor. At the end of The New Mutants #86, dated February 1990, a teaser promised him for the next issue. He appeared nowhere in that issue's story. Even…
ThanosThanos first appeared on a comic book cover dated February 1973, in The Invincible Iron Man #55, and Marvel's heroes have not been rid of him since. He is a warlord from Titan, a moon of Saturn, born into two branches of a superhuman…
Doctor ManhattanDoctor Manhattan, the blue-skinned superhuman of the graphic novel Watchmen, wears a mark that nobody assigned to him. Military planners prepared a hat for his public unveiling, decorated with crossed ellipses meant to suggest an atom. Jon…
Rachel SummersRachel Summers is a Marvel Comics character whose surname was kept secret when she first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #141, published in January 1981. Writer Chris Claremont and artist and co-plotter John Byrne created her. Readers only…
Spider-Man 2099Spider-Man 2099 made his first appearance in a five-page sneak preview printed inside the 30th-anniversary issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. Readers met a hero who lived about 107 years beyond the Marvel Universe of that moment. His…
Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)Supergirl, whose Kryptonian name is Kara Zor-El, first appeared in Action Comics #252 in May 1959. Writer Otto Binder created her, and artist Al Plastino designed her and drew that debut. Her story begins on Argo City, a fragment of…
Legion (Marvel Comics)David Charles Haller, the Marvel Comics character known as Legion, may carry more than a thousand personalities in a single mind. Nobody knows the exact number, because his mind can create a new one whenever something shakes him, from…
Kang the ConquerorKang the Conqueror, the Marvel Comics supervillain whose birth name is Nathaniel Richards, first appeared in Fantastic Four #19, dated October 1963. In that issue he wore the crown of a pharaoh and went by Rama-Tut. He was a criminal from…
America ChavezAmerica Chavez, a superhero in Marvel Comics, was described by her own creator as "the Muhammad Ali of the Marvel Universe." Writer Joe Casey wanted a character who would hit audiences as hard as certain figures had hit him in his youth.…