10 Criminally Overlooked Characters In Comics

Captain Comet was created during the time between the Golden Age and Silver Age by Julius Schwartz, John Broome, and Carmine Infantino. Born in 1931, Adam Blake was a mutant “born hundreds of thousands of years before his time.” As he grew, so did his powers. Confiding in physicist Emery Zackro, they developed the Captain Comet identity which Blake used to thwart an alien invasion.

Feeling isolated from humanity due because of his nature, Blake spent 20 years exploring space, when he returned he hadn’t aged at all. He mistakenly took the wrong side in a fight between Green Lantern and Gorilla Grodd. Because of Grodd, Captain Comet briefly joined the Secret Society of Super-Villains before going on to oppose them almost single-handedly for years. Comet was offered a position in the Justice League but refused. Comet ended up in space again and became embroiled in both of the Rann-Thanagar Wars.

As DC’s possibly only “mutant”, Captain Comet has a power set that makes him one of the most powerful and versatile creations in the company's history. He should be one of the big guns along with Superman and Shazam. Also, the fact that he was created right before the Silver Age explosion leaves a major landscape of completely unexplored story possibilities. He is a perfect character at the crossroads of DC Comics' history.