Perry Mason

Few Golden Age comics debuts carry quite the literary pedigree of Perry Mason, who stepped off the page and into four-color adventures beginning with Feature Book #50 in 1947, brought to comics life by none other than his own creator, Erle Stanley Gardner, alongside artist Paul Norris. The courtroom's most celebrated legal mind found a natural home in the comics medium, keeping company with the indispensable Della Street across titles like Perry Mason: Four Cases of Murder, and his catalog trail stretches a remarkable 66 years from that Golden Age debut all the way to 2013. With appearances also documented in Alter Ego, this is a character whose comics footprint rewards the curious collector willing to dig into one of fiction's most iconic names rendered in ink and panels.