The General

Grant Morrison and Howard Porter unleashed The General onto the DC Universe in 1998's JLA #25, dropping this Modern Age menace straight into one of comics' most prestigious arenas — the pages shared with Superman, Batman, Bruce Wayne, and Green Lantern. A figure whose very name radiates authority and threat, The General carved out a compact but collector-noted footprint across JLA and Justice League of America, with at least one appearance significant enough to earn key-issue status. Ten catalog appearances may sound lean, but when every one of them puts you shoulder-to-shoulder with the World's Greatest Heroes, quality of company speaks volumes — and for fans who love the era when Morrison was reinventing the Justice League as modern mythology, The General is a villain worth hunting down.