Bob Hardin

Bob Hardin made his entrance in the mid-1990s through Malibu Comics' The Phoenix Resurrection, a crossover event ambitious enough to bring together some genuinely heavy hitters — Mantra, Prototype, and Marvel luminaries like Logan and Ororo Munroe all share the pages where Bob walks. Debuting in 1995 courtesy of creators J. Smith and R. Haynes, he's a compact but intriguing piece of the Copper/Modern Age puzzle, woven across The Phoenix Resurrection, its American Entertainment Edition, and Genesis. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Bob Hardin is the kind of deep-cut discovery that reminds collectors just how rich and layered that era of Malibu storytelling really was.