Batman

Few characters carry the weight of Gotham's shadows quite like this iteration of Batman, who stepped into the Modern Age spotlight with Mark Waid and George Pérez's The Brave and the Bold #5 in 2007 — a debut that placed him immediately in distinguished creative hands. Across nearly two decades of DC publishing, he's kept remarkable company, sharing pages with the likes of Robin, Barbara Gordon, Damian Wayne, and Bruce Wayne himself, and turning up in cornerstone titles like Detective Comics and the celebrated Batman and Robin Omnibus by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason. With a catalog presence stretching to 2026, this is a Batman whose footprint spans some of the richest storytelling terrain the Modern Age has to offer — a worthy thread to pull for any serious DC collector.