Shatterfist

Shatterfist stepped onto the DC stage in 1985's Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe — that beloved Bronze Age compendium that felt like a passport to the entire DC cosmos — and went on to carve out a modest but persistent corner of that universe across more than two decades. With appearances in Justice League of America and The Power Company, this is a character who has kept genuinely rarefied company, sharing pages with the likes of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Bruce Wayne. Six appearances may sound lean, but one of them carries key-issue weight, and there's something undeniably cool about a figure whose debut was DC essentially saying, this person belongs in our definitive directory. For collectors who love hunting the edges of the DC universe, Shatterfist is exactly the kind of discovery that makes deep-diving the longboxes worthwhile.