Lt. Sam Lomax

Bronze Age crime comics had a gritty, street-level energy all their own, and Lt. Sam Lomax arrived right in the thick of it with Police Action #1 in 1975, brought to life by Jack Younger and the legendary Mike Sekowsky for Seaboard. A law enforcement figure navigating the hard-boiled world of 1970s comic storytelling, Lomax shares the pages of Police Action with the likes of Luke Malone, making for compelling company in a series that captured that era's taste for tough, procedural drama. Though his catalog footprint is small, his debut in a Sekowsky-illustrated book alone makes Lt. Sam Lomax a worthwhile find for any serious Bronze Age hunter.