Jefferson Jackson

Bronze Age DC has its share of fascinating footnotes, and Jefferson Jackson is one with a genuinely unusual origin story — debuting in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #1 in 1978, the legendary Gerry Conway and Dick Ayers creation that exists because DC's content was shelved before it ever reached stands. That quirky publishing history gives Jefferson a collector's mystique right from the start, with one of his handful of appearances already flagged as a key issue. Across a surprisingly long span stretching into 2011, he shares pages with the likes of Ronnie Raymond, Prof. Martin Stein, and Cliff Carmichael — names that will ring bells for any Firestorm devotee — making him a figure woven into the fabric of that corner of the DC universe. A rare find with a story behind the story, Jefferson Jackson rewards the curious fan willing to dig.