Peter

Stepping out of the pages of Kurt Busiek and Brent E. Anderson's beloved Astro City in 1996, Peter is one of the quietly compelling presences woven into that richly imagined superhero universe. A character who has persisted across an impressive 26-year span of publication, he inhabits a world populated by icons like Confessor, Jack-in-the-Box, and Crackerjack — the kind of colorful, layered company that makes Astro City one of the most celebrated superhero settings of the Modern Age. While his catalog footprint is intimate rather than sprawling, appearing across the core series and its companion volumes, that selectivity only adds to the sense that every appearance counts. For collectors who prize the texture and humanity that define Astro City at its best, Peter is a name worth pausing on.