Jack of Spades

A playing-card-themed villain with a sharp edge, Jack of Spades dealt their way into DC Comics in 2009, courtesy of writer Sholly Fisch and artist Chynna Clugston in the pages of Super Friends. This Modern Age creation shares comic real estate with some of DC's heaviest hitters — Batman, Robin, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Steel — which speaks to the caliber of company this character keeps. With appearances spread across Super Friends and the sweeping retrospective DC Universe: Legacies, Jack of Spades is a compact but intriguing piece of the modern DC puzzle, the kind of discovery that makes digging through back issues so rewarding.