The Chief

Rooted in the very earliest days of DC Comics, The Chief made their debut in 1936's New Comics #8 — a Platinum Age original conjured by the pioneering Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and Tom Hickey at a moment when the entire medium was still finding its feet. Across the pages of New Comics, New Adventure Comics, and Adventure Comics, this character carved out a presence through the late 1930s and into the early 1940s, sharing those landmark anthology pages with none other than Superman, Clark Kent, Wesley Dodds, and The Sandman himself — as storied a roster of early DC luminaries as you could hope to find. With three key-issue appearances to their name, The Chief is a genuine piece of comics archaeology, a figure whose story is inseparable from the chaotic, thrilling birth of the superhero age. For collectors and historians with a love for the Platinum and Golden Age foundations of DC, this is exactly the kind of discovery worth chasing down.