J. J. Sachs

Few characters arrive with a creative pedigree quite like J. J. Sachs, who made her debut in 1993's Sachs & Violens #1 courtesy of the formidable team of writer Peter David and artist George Pérez — a combination that guaranteed this Marvel Copper/Modern Age series would turn heads from the first page. She anchors the title that bears her name, sharing its gritty, mature-readers world with the likes of Ernie "Violens" Schultz, Lt. Eliot Kelso, and the menacing Axecutioner. It's a compact but distinctive corner of the Marvel universe, and the David-Pérez collaboration alone makes tracking down those early-'90s issues well worth any collector's effort.