The Bogeyman

Rory Hayes's Bogeyman is a creature of dread born from the late-'60s underground comics movement, debuting in Bogeyman Comics #1 from The Print Mint — a genuinely unsettling figure rooted in counterculture alternative publishing rather than mainstream superheroics.

Something genuinely unsettling lurked at the edges of the Silver Age underground — and Rory Hayes gave it a name when he unleashed The Bogeyman in 1969's Bogeyman Comics from The Print Mint. A creature of the counterculture comics underground rather than the spandex mainstream, this character emerged from one of the more delightfully strange corners of late-'60s alternative publishing, sharing ink with offbeat company like Zippy the Pinhead across titles including Arcade the Comics Revue. Rare in the catalog with only a handful of appearances spanning nearly two decades, The Bogeyman is a genuine artifact of underground comix history — the kind of find that makes a collector's pulse quicken.