Dan Bowers

A product of comics' earliest days, Dan Bowers made his debut in DC's More Fun Comics back in 1937 — squarely in the Platinum Age, when the medium itself was still finding its footing. Over a run stretching into the mid-1940s, he shared pages with some genuinely fascinating company, including the mystical Dr. Occult and Rose Psychic, figures that hint at the wonderfully eclectic spirit of that era. His appearances across More Fun Comics and Atomic Comics make him a quiet but genuine piece of comics history, the kind of character that rewards the curious collector willing to dig into the genre's formative years.