Zip-Zap

Born in the mid-nineties at Malibu Comics, Zip-Zap made their debut in the special American Entertainment Edition of The Phoenix Resurrection #0 in 1995, brought to life by creators J. Smith and R. Haynes during one of comics' most experimental modern eras. It's a rarefied debut — sharing pages with heavy hitters like Mantra, Prototype, and even Marvel luminaries Ororo Munroe and Logan, which speaks to the ambitious crossover energy Malibu was channeling at the time. Zip-Zap's footprint across The Phoenix Resurrection titles is compact but consequential, the kind of character that rewards the dedicated collector hunting the full picture of a fascinating, short-lived publisher at the height of its ambition.