David Crandall

David Crandall made his debut in Nature Boy #4 in 1956, brought to life by the prolific Joe Gill and artist Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio during the final flicker of the Golden Age — a fascinating moment when superhero comics were giving way to wilder, more adventurous fare. Sharing pages with the likes of Nature Boy and the legendary Pecos Bill, he keeps genuinely colorful company, and his appearances stretch across a remarkable span of decades all the way to 2024, turning up in Maui Mighty Comics along the way. With only a handful of catalog appearances, David Crandall is the kind of quietly intriguing figure that rewards the dedicated digger — a small footprint with a long shadow, and exactly the sort of discovery that makes deep-cut comics archaeology so satisfying.