Payback

Emerging from DC's early '90s cosmic corner in 1994, Payback made their entrance in The Darkstars — a series that ran in the thick of comics' Modern Age ambition, courtesy of creators Michael Jan Friedman and Michael Collins. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a rare, blink-and-you'll-miss-it figure whose pages crackle with the company of heavy hitters like Donna Troy, John Stewart, and Green Lantern. For collectors who love digging into the deeper cuts of DC's space-faring mythology, Payback is exactly the kind of discovery that makes back-issue hunting so rewarding.