Jesus Christ

Few figures carry the weight of history that Jesus Christ does, and yet here he is woven into the fabric of comics stretching from a 1939 Golden Age debut in Art Young's Art Young: His Life and Times all the way through 2010 — a remarkable 71-year span across the catalog. Most intriguingly, the series he appears in most include Yummy Fur and Tomb of Dracula, placing him in some genuinely unexpected company alongside the likes of Dracula, Frank Drake, and Domini, which tells you something about the wonderfully strange, boundary-pushing corners of comics where this figure keeps resurfacing. With 60 catalog appearances, a key issue to his name, and a publishing home at Vortex, this is a character whose presence in comics is far more varied and creatively adventurous than you might expect — a testament to how the medium has never stopped reaching for the profound, the provocative, and the transcendent.