Mr. Morden

A Silver Age curiosity with genuine collector cachet, Mr. Morden made his debut in 1964's Five-Score Comic Monthly #74, brought to life by a remarkably accomplished creative trio — John Broome, Gardner Fox, and Carmine Infantino. His catalog footprint is small but select: just three appearances, one of them a recognized key issue, and his company is extraordinary — he shares pages with the likes of Monsieur Mallah, The Brain, and Madame Rouge, placing him squarely in the wonderfully strange corner of DC history that DC Finest: The Doom Patrol: The World's Strangest Heroes celebrates. The fact that this character has surfaced across six decades, from 1964 all the way to 2025, and earned a spot in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe, tells you he left enough of an impression to be remembered — and for devoted DC historians, that makes Mr. Morden well worth tracking down.