Burnout

Bobby Lane is a Gen 13 teenager gifted with pyrokinetic abilities — the power to generate and project intense fire. A member of the young superhuman team Gen 13, he operates alongside fellow powered teens under the shadow of the covert organization I.O.

Keith Giffen introduced Burnout to the world in 1993's Trencher #2, and this DC character has since burned bright across nearly three decades of comics — racking up 79 catalog appearances and three key-issue distinctions that any serious collector will want on their radar. A fixture of the Gen 13 universe, Burnout keeps genuinely exciting company, sharing pages with the likes of Roxy Spaulding, Rainmaker, John Lynch, and Cole Cash across a run that stretches impressively from the Copper/Modern Age all the way into 2022. If you're diving into the wilder, more irreverent corner of DC's modern era — where attitude ran as high as the page count — Burnout is very much a character worth tracking down.