The Dragon King

Few characters make their entrance quite like The Dragon King — debuting not in a story but in DC's own Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe in 1985, the Bronze Age reference series that codified the publisher's sprawling mythology. Created by Len Wein, this villain was enshrined in DC's official canon from the very start, later earning a key-issue appearance and a notable presence in Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E., where he shares the page with luminaries like Green Lantern, Hawkman, and Doctor Fate. A compact but enduring figure across nearly four decades of DC history, The Dragon King is exactly the kind of deep-catalogue menace that rewards the curious collector willing to dig beneath the surface.