Mr. Chang

Few characters can claim a place at the very dawn of DC's storied history, but Mr. Chang debuted in Detective Comics #2 in 1937 — a Platinum Age artifact from the legendary creative team of Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, the same duo who would soon reshape comics forever. Appearing in the pages of Detective Comics, he shares that early, pulp-flavored world with the likes of Slam Bradley, Bruce Nelson, and Cosmo, a rogues' gallery of characters that defined the adventurous spirit of comics' earliest era. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Mr. Chang is a rare and tantalizing footnote — the kind of obscure Platinum Age discovery that makes long-box digging so rewarding for serious collectors.