Mark Martin

Emerging from the indie underground in 1988, Mark Martin is an Alternative Comics creation brought to life by Mark Burbey and Bill Turner in the pages of Street Music, a Copper Age debut that plants this character firmly in the scrappy, self-expressive world of small-press publishing. Over roughly eighteen years, Mark Martin turns up across a handful of titles — including Runaway Comics and the wonderfully named Humor Can Be Funny! — sharing adventures with the likes of Montgomery Wart. A modest catalog footprint, but for fans of the alternative comics scene and its DIY spirit, that's often exactly where the most interesting characters live.