"The Natural" Dustin Rhodes

Stepping out of the early '90s comics boom, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes made his four-color debut in Marvel's WCW World Championship Wrestling #1 in 1992, part of that short-lived but fondly remembered series that brought professional wrestling's biggest stars into the comic book medium. Created by Mike Lackey and Ron Wilson, he shares these pages with an absolute murderers' row of WCW legends — Sting, Arn Anderson, Barry Windham, Ron Simmons, and Rick Steiner — making even a handful of appearances feel like a front-row seat to early-'90s wrestling's golden moment. It's a niche corner of the Copper/Modern Age that rewards the curious collector, and for fans who love the intersection of wrestling history and comics history, tracking down these issues is a genuinely rewarding hunt.