Deathwish

Born in the pages of Hardware #5 in 1993, Deathwish is a product of the groundbreaking Milestone Comics imprint — that vital creative movement co-founded by Dwayne McDuffie and Denys Cowan that brought fresh, bold voices to superhero storytelling. Sharing the page with Hardware himself (and the civilian lives of Wilton Johnson and Curtis Metcalf), Deathwish orbits one of Milestone's most celebrated corners of the Dakota universe. With appearances stretching all the way into 2022 — including the landmark Milestone Compendium — this character's presence endures well beyond their Copper/Modern Age debut, a testament to the lasting resonance of everything McDuffie and Cowan built together. A small but meaningful piece of a genuinely important chapter in comics history.