Humpty Dumpty

Don't let the nursery-rhyme name fool you — DC's Humpty Dumpty is a genuinely unsettling presence in the Modern Age Gotham landscape, introduced by the sharp creative mind of Gail Simone and artist Dale Eaglesham in Villains United #6 in 2005. Over a sixteen-year stretch, this peculiar figure has haunted the darker corners of DC's Batman-adjacent titles, turning up in Adventures of Superman, Batman: Streets of Gotham, and Batman Arkham: Victor Zsasz — company that signals a character firmly at home among Gotham's most disturbing denizens. Sharing pages with the likes of Batman, Bruce Wayne, and The Flash speaks to a surprisingly broad footprint for someone with a relatively modest appearance count, making every showing feel like a collector's find. If you love the weird, unsettling underbelly of DC's street-level storytelling, Humpty Dumpty is exactly the kind of oddity worth tracking down.