Vaporizer

Few characters make their entrance in quite as charged a setting as Vaporizer, who burst onto the scene in Alan Moore and Bart Sears' Violator #1 in 1994 — right in the thick of Image Comics' explosive early years. This Copper/Modern Age figure cuts a memorable silhouette across a handful of titles including Violator vs. Badrock and Spawn: The Dark Ages, sharing pages with a genuinely dangerous crowd that includes Violator himself and Al Simmons. Seven appearances may be a compact legacy, but in comics, the right seven pages in the right company can leave a lasting mark on any collector's radar.