How about Identity Girl, who's described as being "a new character you've never heard of that's just a watered-down version of a bunch of characters you have heard of."
Or Maybe
Mosquito Man
He once tried to convince Stan to replace Spider-man with him.
Speaking of Spider-man...
Bluebird had a very brief career as a crimefighter in the pages of Untold Tales of Spider-man.
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05-05-2017, 09:03 PM #46Better than YOU!
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05-05-2017, 10:23 PM #47Fantastic Member
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Sleepwalker. I seriously had no idea this character existed and I have been a fan of Marvel Comics all my life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalker_(comics)
Because let's face it, you've never heard of them either.
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05-05-2017, 10:45 PM #48Father Son Kamehameha <
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Not really a superhero, but I loved Nth Man.
I had an issue of Comet Man, too, at at some point.
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05-05-2017, 11:07 PM #49Incredible Member
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Oh...on more of my faves that I forgot: Generic Super-Hero from Marvel's 1980's one-shot comic "Generic Comic Book":
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05-06-2017, 06:16 AM #50Uncanny Member
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Already mentioned, back on page 1.
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05-06-2017, 06:18 AM #51Uncanny Member
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They can't. It would need to be co-published with IDW, who now have the rights to the character. Originally Posted by Zero Hunter
The Wraiths showed up in the Avengers book leading up to the full on Wraith invasion in the Rom book. I really wish Marvel would reprint Rom in trades. That was such an epic book.
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05-06-2017, 01:05 PM #52Incredible Member
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That book has been on my back issue list forever. I never see it anywhere I'm back issue bins, and I don't buy comics online typically. Originally Posted by edpower
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05-06-2017, 01:22 PM #53The Fastest Post Alive!
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Indeed. This was also when the female Wraiths - the red ones with the long, forked tongues - took over from puffy-looking male white Wraiths. The red female ones were more powerful and scarier than the puffy white male ones. Originally Posted by Montressor
It was pretty cool how a character licensed from an unsuccessful Parker Brothers toy somehow became the center of a Marvel line-wide event. I wish SHOGUN WARRIORS had achieved enough momentum and lasted long enough to get that kind of treatment (imagine MONSTERS UNLEASHED with the Shoguns).
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05-06-2017, 04:59 PM #54Amazing Member
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I think the most obscure characters would be the earliest pulp characters that ran in the original pulp mags Timely Comics published. One of them was Masked Raider, a Lone Ranger-type character.
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05-06-2017, 10:56 PM #55Fantastic Member
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...now I feel like a total half-wit. xD Originally Posted by Digifiend
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05-09-2017, 12:18 PM #56Unstoppable Member
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Union Jack. The first Union Jack was the second British Marvel hero to debut (after Blade).
“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
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05-09-2017, 12:46 PM #57Astonishing Member
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Vengeance.
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05-09-2017, 02:25 PM #58Incredible Member
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I'm surprised you missed him, he had his own series and he got a decent push at the time. He was one of what I'd call the "Dark Hawk" era of new 90s heroes. Originally Posted by ZoomZolomonZoom
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05-09-2017, 04:13 PM #59A bitter New Warriors fan
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Most of the trainees/staff of Avengers Initiative have become obscure after the series had ended. Even some of the characters who were not created for Avengers Initiative series are D-List people such as Gorilla Girl, Annex, Batwing, Bengal, Geiger, Sunstreak and Whiz Kid.
Also, those Rangers of Texas such as Shooting Star, Red Wolf (not that time-displaced version from 1872), Texas Twister, Firebird, Shooting Star, Fifty-One and Living Lightning. They were last seen in Scarlet Spider issues #7-9 at 2012.Last edited by MitchFox; 05-09-2017 at 04:36 PM.
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I think marvel wishes that too problem is the CAN'T Rom belongs to the parker brothers Originally Posted by Zero Hunter
The Wraiths showed up in the Avengers book leading up to the full on Wraith invasion in the Rom book. I really wish Marvel would reprint Rom in trades. That was such an epic book.
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