Darkstar

A figure from DC's early-1990s space-opera landscape, Darkstar debuted in the pages of The Darkstars, a series centered on an interstellar law-enforcement organization that rivaled the Green Lantern Corps, rubbing shoulders with cosmic heavy-hitters like John Stewart and Donna Troy.

A cosmic-level presence born in the mid-nineties boom of DC's space-faring mythology, Darkstar made their entrance in The Darkstars #22 in 1994, courtesy of creators Michael Jan Friedman and Mike Collins. Those six catalogued appearances place this character squarely in the company of heavy hitters — Green Lantern, John Stewart, and Donna Troy all share the same pages, signaling that Darkstar orbited some genuinely consequential corners of the DC universe. Brief but vivid, this is exactly the kind of character that rewards the dedicated back-issue hunter who loves the era when DC was pushing its cosmic mythology to bold new frontiers.