James Jesse

Circus-born acrobat Giovanni Giuseppe reinvented himself as master con man James Jesse, crafting an arsenal of trick gadgets — most notably specially engineered shoes that let him literally walk on air — to menace the Flash as the Trickster, eventually becoming a founding member of the Rogues.

Born from the brilliant Silver Age minds of John Broome and Carmine Infantino in The Flash #113 (1960), James Jesse is one of DC's most enduring rogues, a character whose debut six decades ago launched a legacy that kept collectors and readers hooked well into the 2020s. His sixty-year publishing history — spanning The Flash, Flash, and Countdown to Final Crisis — speaks to a staying power that few characters from that era can match, with three key issues among his appearances to prove it. Along the way he's shared the page with some of DC's finest and most notorious, from Barry Allen and Wally West to Batman and Captain Cold, placing him squarely at the heart of DC's most colorful, consequential stories. If you love the rich tapestry of the Silver Age and the rogues who made the Flash's world so irresistible, James Jesse is absolutely worth your time.