Jeremy Baines

A supporting player in Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson's beloved Astro City, Jeremy Baines stepped onto the page in 2013, part of the rich, humanizing tapestry that has made that series one of DC's most thoughtful superhero titles of the Modern Age. With just a handful of catalog appearances, he's a figure who exists in the margins of a world populated by luminaries like Winged Victory, Cleopatra, and Beautie — and in Astro City, those margins are often where the most resonant stories live. For collectors who prize character-driven storytelling over spectacle, tracking down the corners of this series is always rewarding.