Cassius Payne

Born into the sprawling, reality-shaking pages of Infinite Crisis #2 (2006) — one of DC's most ambitious Modern Age epics, crafted by the legendary trio of Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez, and George Pérez — Cassius Payne arrives with serious pedigree. Though their catalog footprint is small, the company they keep is anything but: their pages are shared with titans like Green Lantern, Firestorm, Superboy, The Flash, and Clayface, placing them squarely in the thick of DC's grand, interconnected universe. Appearances across Infinite Crisis, Batman: Gotham Knights, and Absolute Infinite Crisis suggest a character woven into both Gotham's shadows and DC's biggest cosmic moments. For collectors hunting the hidden corners of a landmark era, Cassius Payne is exactly the kind of discovery that makes digging through back issues so rewarding.