El Robo

Stepping out of the sun-drenched pages of Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's landmark Astro City universe since 1995, El Robo is one of the colorful figures who give that richly imagined city its texture and life. Debuting in the Copper/Modern Age and still turning up across collected editions three decades on, this character shares the stage with some of Astro City's most celebrated icons — Samaritan, the Confessor, Jack-in-the-Box, and Cleopatra among them — which is testament to the kind of vibrant, layered world Busiek built. With eleven catalog appearances woven through the Astro City line from Image, El Robo is exactly the sort of discovery that rewards fans who dig deeper into one of modern comics' most beloved and humanistic superhero settings.