Leonard Smalls Jr.

Emerging from DC's early-1990s Copper Age, Leonard Smalls Jr. made his debut in Guy Gardner #8 in 1993, courtesy of creators Gerard Jones, Will Jacobs, and Joe Staton — a memorable entrance into a comics landscape buzzing with bold new voices. His story threads through some genuinely exciting corners of the DC universe, with appearances across Hardware, Guy Gardner, and Icon, putting him in the company of standout figures like Holocaust, Static, Hardware, and Icon himself. With two key-issue appearances to his name and a presence that stretches nearly three decades to 2022, Leonard Smalls Jr. is a quietly durable figure whose modest footprint makes those collector-significant moments all the more worth tracking down.