Darkstar

Stepping out of the early '90s DC cosmos, Darkstar made their debut in The Darkstars #11 (1993), courtesy of creators Michael Jan Friedman and Mitch Byrd, right in the thick of comics' Copper/Modern Age expansion into sprawling space opera. The Darkstars series was DC's ambitious corner of the universe, and this character shares its pages with the likes of Green Lantern, Ferrin Colos, and Mo Douglas — serious cosmic company that signals the scale of the stories being told here. With nine catalog appearances concentrated in a relatively tight 1993–1996 window, Darkstar is a focused, era-specific find for readers who love digging into the deeper reaches of DC's interstellar mythology. If you're a fan of that rich vein of '90s space-faring adventure, this is exactly the kind of character worth seeking out.