John Targitt

Few publishers captured the gritty, anything-goes spirit of the Bronze Age quite like Seaboard, and John Targitt arrived right at the heart of that moment with his debut in Targitt #1 in 1975, brought to life by Ric Meyers and Howard Nostrand. A character built for the hard-edged, street-level storytelling that defined the mid-seventies, Targitt shares his pages with the ominously named Man-Stalker, signaling the kind of tough, dangerous company this title kept. His catalog footprint is small — a rare, concentrated burst from a publisher whose ambitions outpaced its lifespan — which makes every appearance a genuine piece of Bronze Age history worth hunting down.