Pamela Jointly

Pamela Jointly made her entrance in the very first issue of Don Simpson's Megaton Man back in 1984 — a key issue in the collector's world and a lively debut for Kitchen Sink Press's irreverent corner of the Bronze Age. Over a run stretching into the early '90s, she shares the page with a wonderfully offbeat cast that includes Megaton Man himself, See-Thru Girl, Yarn Man, and Stella Starlight, the kind of colorful company that signals just how gleefully Simpson played with superhero conventions. Her appearances span some of the most entertainingly titled books of the era — Megaton Man Meets The Uncategorizable X+Thems and Savage Dragon vs. Savage Megaton Man among them — making her a genuine piece of indie comics history for anyone who loves the genre's more adventurous, self-aware side.