Grant Morrison

Few moments in comics history are as delightfully surreal as when Grant Morrison — the real-life writer — stepped onto the page of their own Animal Man in 1990, becoming a character within the very story they were crafting. Born from the boundary-dissolving creativity of the Copper Age, this meta-fictional version of Morrison exists in a handful of genuinely rare appearances, sharing those strange, reality-bending pages with Buddy Baker and his family. It's a collector's curiosity and a landmark of postmodern storytelling, the kind of thing that makes Animal Man essential reading for anyone who wants to understand just how weird and wonderful DC Comics could get.