Rita Repulsa

Few villains in the Modern Age arrived with quite the cultural momentum of Rita Repulsa, who made her comics debut in 1995's Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Saga #1 from NBM, courtesy of creators Donald D. Markstein, John Heebink, and Sparky Moore. Born from one of the era's most recognizable pop-culture phenomena, she brought her iconic menace to the page sharing adventures with the likes of Billy Cranston and the color-coded Rangers — Blue, Pink, Black, and Yellow — who made the franchise a phenomenon. Her presence spans nearly a quarter-century of comics across titles including Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, cementing her as one of the defining antagonists of her generation. For collectors with a soft spot for that electric early-Modern Age moment when Saturday-morning spectacle crashed headlong into comics, Rita Repulsa is an essential and thoroughly entertaining piece of the puzzle.