GoldBrick

Bursting onto the scene in 1996 courtesy of Erik Larsen's creator-owned Savage Dragon, GoldBrick is a Modern Age Image Comics original with a small but collector-notable footprint — two of their seven catalogued appearances carry key-issue status, which is a remarkable ratio for any character. Running through the mid-to-late nineties across Savage Dragon and the crossover showcase Altered Image, GoldBrick shares their pages with a rough-and-tumble crowd including Kurr, Rock, Crusher, and Sara Hill — the kind of company that signals this corner of the Image universe plays for keeps. Short in run but punchy in significance, GoldBrick is exactly the sort of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through Image's wild Nineties output so rewarding.