Evil

A curious relic of comics' earliest mythology, Evil made their DC debut in 1946, conjured by the legendary Golden Age duo of Otto Binder and C. C. Beck in the pages of The Marvel Family. Keeping dark company alongside the likes of Sin, Wickedness, and Terror — and crossing paths with Captain Marvel and Billy Batson themselves — Evil is the kind of archetypal, capital-letter concept that only the bold symbolic imagination of the Golden Age could put on a comics page. With appearances stretching across The Marvel Family, World's Finest Comics, and Shazam!: The World's Mightiest Mortal, this figure has quietly persisted through decades of DC history. Rare in the catalog and steeped in that wonderfully earnest Golden Age sensibility, Evil is a fascinating footnote for any collector who loves the genre at its most mythic and unabashed.