Mongrel

Mongrel crashed onto the DC scene in 1993, born from the creative partnership of John Ostrander and Steven Lieber in Hawkman Annual #1 — a copper/modern age debut that dropped them into a corner of the DC universe buzzing with edgy, street-level energy. With appearances spread across Deathstroke, Guy Gardner: Warrior, and Hawkman Annual, this is a character who moved in genuinely rough company, sharing pages with the likes of Katar Hol and Grant Emerson. Their catalog footprint is small but intriguing — a rare, fleeting figure from that gritty early-'90s DC moment that completists and Ostrander devotees will want to track down.