Harley Hudson

Few characters can claim a Golden Age pedigree stretching back to 1940, but Harley Hudson is one of them — born in the pages of Shield-Wizard Comics #5, conjured by the creative team of Harry Shorten and Irv Novick during comics' earliest heroic flowering. Published under the Archie banner, Hudson has kept remarkable company over the decades, sharing adventures with luminaries like The Wizard, The Black Hood, and The Firefly across titles including Top Notch Comics and Shield-Wizard Comics. The fact that Hudson's publishing footprint stretches all the way from 1940 to 2018 speaks to a quiet resilience — nearly eight decades of comics history anchoring this Golden Age figure to the present day.