Lester Girls

Few comic characters arrive with quite the built-in irony of Lester Girls, the creation of Will Jacobs, Gerard Jones, and Tim Hamilton, who burst onto the Copper Age scene in Malibu's The Trouble with Girls #1 in 1987. Running through the turn of the decade into 1991, this character anchored a run that clearly had a sense of humor baked right into its title, and the adventures extended into Lester Girls: The Lizard's Trail and even crossed into Captain Harlock territory. With 13 catalog appearances across a compact but distinctive publishing window, Lester Girls is the kind of cult-favorite oddity that rewards the curious collector willing to dig into Malibu's scrappier, more irreverent corner of the Copper Age.