Vortex

Bursting onto the independent comics scene in 1986, Vortex is a Firebird Press original who debuted in Energons #1 under the hand of creator Sherman Burnett — part of that bold wave of indie publishers who dared to build their own universes during the Copper Age. Over an impressive 31-year publishing span stretching into 2017, this character carved out a niche across titles like Energons, Quasar, and Firebird Press Presents, sharing pages with a roster of evocatively named figures — Quasar, Micron, Neutron, Twister, and Electron — that hints at a richly conceived corner of the independent cosmos. Vortex is exactly the kind of discovery that reminds passionate collectors why digging beyond the Big Two is always worth the effort.