Dark Wolf

Few characters announce themselves quite like Dark Wolf, who burst onto the Malibu Comics scene in 1987 courtesy of creators R. A. Jones and Butch Burcham — a Copper Age original with a title all their own. This self-named series surrounds Dark Wolf with a striking cast of characters including Abraxis, Holocaust, and the enigmatic Dhyana, suggesting a world of considerable darkness and ambition. Though their catalog footprint is compact, the sheer boldness of launching an eponymous Malibu title in that fertile independent-comics era marks Dark Wolf as a genuine artifact of a moment when creator-driven books were pushing the boundaries of mainstream superhero fare.