Hooja

Hooja is a villain from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar — the savage hollow-earth world at the planet's core — adapted into DC's Bronze Age anthology series alongside fellow Pellucidarians David Innes and Abner Perry. A scheming, treacherous figure from the original pulp novels, he serves as a recurring antagonist in that subterranean realm.

Hooja slithered onto the Bronze Age comics scene in 1972's Weird Worlds #1, brought to life at DC by Len Wein and Alan Lee Weiss drawing on the legendary pulp imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Sharing those prehistoric, subterranean pages with the likes of David Innes, Abner Perry, and Dian, Hooja inhabits a wonderfully exotic corner of the DC universe rooted in Burroughs' classic adventure mythology. It's a testament to the enduring pull of that world that Hooja's appearances stretch across an impressive arc from 1972 all the way to 2015, surfacing in both Weird Worlds and Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core. Rare in the catalog but rich in pulp heritage, Hooja is a rewarding discovery for collectors who love their Bronze Age comics with a dash of lost-world grandeur.