Gu Lao

Emerging from DC's ambitious weekly epic 52 in 2006, Gu Lao is a Modern Age figure who debuted under the remarkable collaborative pen of Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Keith Giffen, and Joe Bennett — a creative dream team if ever there was one. With only a handful of catalog appearances, they remain a rare and intriguing presence, the kind of character that makes digging through back issues genuinely rewarding. Sharing pages with titans like Green Lantern, Batman, and Wonder Woman, as well as fellow figures Fang Zhifu and Socialist Red Guardsman, Gu Lao exists within one of DC's most sprawling and inventive storytelling experiments — a real collector's footnote worth hunting down.