The Hacker Files
DC · 1992–1993 · 12 issues
About the series
In the early 1990s, DC Comics published The Hacker Files, a 12-issue cyberpunk thriller written by Lewis Shiner and illustrated by Tom Sutton. The series follows a mysterious protagonist navigating a world of data crimes, corporate espionage, and digital paranoia, grounding its high-tech premise in gritty, real-world anxieties about privacy and surveillance. It stands as a distinctive, pre-internet-era artifact that captured the emerging hacker culture and the ethical gray areas of information warfare.