Mr. Burns

Charles Montgomery Burns is Springfield's obscenely wealthy nuclear power plant owner and Homer Simpson's tyrannical boss — a shriveled, centuries-seeming plutocrat whose cold greed and towering ego make him the town's preeminent villain.

Few villains in comics wear their menace quite so entertainingly as Mr. Burns, the cold-eyed power mogul who slithered into Bongo Comics' Simpsons Comics #1 back in 1993, brought to the page by Steve Vance and Sondra Roy. A creature of the Copper/Modern Age, he spent a quarter-century haunting titles like Simpsons Comics and Simpsons Comics Explosion, sharing panels with the entire Simpson family — Bart, Homer, Lisa, Marge, and even little Maggie. Whether you're a devoted Bongo collector or just dipping into Springfield's four-color world, Burns is exactly the kind of deliciously scheming presence that makes these comics such a treat.