El Gigante

Stepping out of the early '90s intersection of professional wrestling and comic book culture, El Gigante made his four-color debut in Marvel's WCW World Championship Wrestling #1 in 1992, brought to life by writer Mike Lackey and artist Ron Wilson. This Copper/Modern Age curiosity drops readers right into the wild world of WCW, sharing pages with some of wrestling's most iconic names — Sting, Lex Luger, Arn Anderson, Rick Steiner, and Ron Simmons — making it a genuine time capsule for fans of both mediums. With only a handful of appearances across the series and its 1993 annual, El Gigante is a rare find, the kind of deep-cut character that makes flipping through a longbox feel like a treasure hunt.