Monster Boy

Emerging from the fertile indie comics scene of the early 1990s, Monster Boy burst onto the page in 1991 courtesy of creator Bob Supina and Caliber Press — that scrappy publisher that gave so many offbeat characters a home during the Copper/Modern Age. Sharing adventures with the legendary Doc Stearn across a handful of appearances, including a spotlight in Mr. Monster Presents (Crack-A-Boom!), this character occupies a wonderfully niche corner of comics history. Rare and distinctly of its era, Monster Boy is exactly the kind of hidden gem that makes digging through indie back-issue bins such a rewarding adventure.