Axa

Axa made her catalog debut in 1988 through Pandora Press's Magnum Comics, a title that clearly had an appetite for bold, eclectic storytelling — sharing its pages with the likes of John Constantine, Papa Midnite, and Cat Claw makes for extraordinarily vivid company. Created by Joan Boix and H. P. Lovecraft, she's a Copper Age figure with a fascinatingly unusual creative pedigree, and while her footprint in the catalog is small, the world she inhabits crackles with atmosphere and ambition. For collectors drawn to the offbeat corners of late-'80s comics, Axa is exactly the kind of discovery that makes digging through back issues so rewarding.