Zator

Few characters can claim a pedigree as storied as Zator's — debuting in The Comics Magazine #1 in 1936, this Platinum Age figure was conjured by none other than Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, the legendary duo who would go on to reshape comics history. Zator haunts the pages of More Fun Comics and The Comics Magazine in the company of some genuinely fascinating early DC figures — Dr. Occult, Dr. Mystic, and The Purple Tiger among them — a rogues' gallery of Golden Age curiosities that speaks to just how wild and inventive those formative years were. With a publishing footprint that stretches remarkably from 1936 all the way to 2013, Zator is a rare Platinum Age relic who never quite faded from collectors' consciousness. For anyone tracing the earliest roots of the DC universe and the creative spark of Siegel and Shuster before Superman changed everything, Zator is an irresistible piece of comics archaeology.