Jane Barlow

A genuine artifact of comics' earliest days, Jane Barlow made her debut in the pages of Top Notch Comics #5 in 1940, brought to life by the creative team of Joe Blair and Irv Novick during the vibrant, anything-goes energy of the Golden Age. Her run through the early 1940s places her squarely in Archie's wartime publishing world, where she shared pages with heavy-hitters like The Shield and The Wizard across Shield-Wizard Comics and Top Notch Comics. With only ten catalogued appearances, she's a rare find — the kind of understated figure that makes Golden Age collectors lean in a little closer, a small but authentic piece of the era when superhero comics were still being invented.