Sonny Sumo

Few characters carry the fingerprints of Jack Kirby's cosmic imagination quite like Sonny Sumo, who burst onto the scene in The Forever People #4 in 1971 — right in the thick of the King's legendary Fourth World saga for DC Comics. A Bronze Age original, he shares his pages with some of Kirby's most memorable creations: the villainous Desaad and the young heroes Beautiful Dreamer, Mark Moonrider, Vykin the Black, and Big Bear. His appearances are rare — which only deepens the fascination for collectors who know that scarcity and a Kirby debut are a combination worth chasing — and his presence across nearly two decades of publishing speaks to a character who left a genuine mark on DC's cosmic mythology.