Cheshire

Few characters who slithered out of the Bronze Age have proven as persistently fascinating as Cheshire, who made her entrance in the pages of The New Teen Titans Annual #2 in 1983, courtesy of the legendary creative team of Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, and Pablo Marcos. Over four decades — from Reagan-era DC to the present day — she has kept remarkably dangerous company, sharing pages with the likes of Batman, Green Lantern, and Dick Grayson across titles as varied as Action Comics Weekly, Detective Comics, and Batman itself. That breadth of appearances speaks to a character who refuses to be confined to any single corner of the DC universe, turning up wherever the stories are sharpest and the stakes are highest. With a key issue already to her name and 42 years of continuous presence, Cheshire is exactly the kind of deep-cut DC figure that rewards the collector willing to dig in.