Praetor

Emerging from the richly imagined streets of Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's Astro City in 1996, Praetor is one of the distinctive figures populating that celebrated corner of the Image universe — a world where superhero mythology is treated with literary care and genuine heart. Though their catalog footprint is compact, the company Praetor keeps is telling: sharing pages with the likes of Jack-in-the-Box, Cleopatra, and the Furst family places this character squarely within Astro City's tapestry of legacy heroes and street-level wonders. For collectors who prize world-building over raw page count, a character rooted in Busiek and Anderson's original 1996 run — and still surfacing as late as 2023 — is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes Astro City such a rewarding universe to explore.