Captain Maggie Sawyer

Few supporting characters in DC's modern era have earned their place in Metropolis as convincingly as Captain Maggie Sawyer, who stepped onto the scene in Superman #4 in 1987, introduced by the legendary John Byrne during one of comics' most energetic creative periods. As a police captain navigating the same city as the Man of Steel himself, she's the kind of grounded, authoritative presence that makes Superman's world feel genuinely lived-in — a familiar face across Superman, Adventures of Superman, and Action Comics for over three decades. Her company is rarefied: she shares those pages with Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Bruce Wayne, and Batman, which says everything about the caliber of storytelling she's been woven into. With a key issue to her name and a 32-year publishing history, Maggie Sawyer is exactly the sort of character that rewards the reader who looks beyond the cape.