Kate Manser

Riding into DC's Bronze Age in the pages of Weird Western Tales #48 (1978), Kate Manser is a frontier figure brought to life by the classic creative team of Gerry Conway and Dick Ayers — a pairing that knew how to make the Old West feel genuinely dangerous and alive. Over a span stretching all the way to 2012, she's proven to have real staying power for a character with a relatively slim footprint, turning up across titles as varied as Guy Gardner: Warrior and DC Universe: Legacies and sharing pages with icons like Batman, Green Lantern, and The Flash. With at least one collector-recognized key issue to her name, Kate Manser is exactly the kind of deep-catalog discovery that rewards the fan willing to dig past the headliners into DC's rich, sprawling history.