Alfred Beagle

Few characters can claim a Golden Age debut alongside Batman, Robin, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, and even Superman, but Alfred Beagle has been doing exactly that since 1943, when Don C. Cameron and Bob Kane introduced him in Batman #16. Turning up across nearly seven decades of comics history — from wartime Gotham to a 2012 appearance — he's one of those wonderfully durable figures whose presence in the same pages as the Dark Knight speaks to the rich, sprawling world DC built in its earliest years. His appearances in Batman in the Forties and The Menomonee Falls Gazette make him a genuine piece of Golden Age heritage, the kind of discovery that reminds collectors just how deep and rewarding that era's storytelling really was.