Kim Liang

From the very first page of DC's 1987 The Spectre relaunch, Kim Liang stepped into one of comics' most haunted corners, brought to life by the atmospheric talents of Doug Moench and Gene Colan. She's a Copper Age figure who shares her world with some of DC's most mystically charged presences — the Spectre himself, Jim Corrigan, Madame Xanadu, and the Phantom Stranger — which tells you everything about the eerie, supernatural territory she inhabits. Across The Spectre and its Annual, her 17 appearances mark her as a genuine fixture of that short, moody run rather than a fleeting face in the crowd. For collectors drawn to DC's darker, more occult-tinged storytelling, Kim Liang is exactly the kind of character who rewards a deeper dive into the longbox.