NM-E

Few villains announce themselves quite like NM-E, who crashed onto the scene in Hardcase #5 in 1993, right in the thick of Malibu Comics' bold Ultraverse experiment. Conjured by James Hudnall and Scott Benefiel, this Copper/Modern Age menace built a compact but memorable footprint across titles like Hardcase, Dream Team, and Battlezones: Dream Team 2, sharing dangerous pages with the likes of Hardcase, Prime, and Choice. Eight appearances may not sound like a dynasty, but in the scrappy, ambitious world of Malibu's Ultraverse — where every issue felt like a statement — NM-E made those encounters count. If you're digging into that underappreciated corner of '90s comics history, this is exactly the kind of character that rewards the curious collector.