Tiger Princess

Bursting onto the scene in 2004 from the indie publisher Wild and Wooly Press, Tiger Princess made her debut in Worldwatch #1, brought to life by writer Chuck Austen and artist Tom Derenick. She's a Modern Age creation sharing her world with a compelling ensemble — Sergeant Mercury, Doc Gulliver, The Intercessor, and others — suggesting a richly populated superhero universe outside the mainstream Big Two. Her catalog footprint may be small, but that only makes her a genuine find for collectors with a taste for the road less traveled in early 2000s independent comics.