Ranking The Most 62 Underrated Comic Book Characters

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Superhero stories are truly captivating; of course, if I told you Superman or Batman you would know exactly who we are talking about. But there are other figures who have not shone so much despite deserving it. In this ranking we are going to tell you which are those characters that for one reason or another have been somewhat relegated from fame. To put together the ranking, we considered reasons such as the lack of continuity in the stories, the fact that they always appear as secondary roles or that they are underestimated due to their abilities.
As you delve into each one, you’ll see how intriguing these characters are and how they’ve made the comic book universe a world full of surprises.

62. Four Armed Terror

This is Jack Kirby DNAlien from DC; actually called the “Four Armed Terror.” With His Kirby Pedigree, and Nuclear Radiation absorbing powers, this odd superhero should be DC’s Hulk.

He is a monstrous human bred from a seed created by Project Cadmus to survive in post-atomic holocaust conditions. In the Evil Factory, it was incubated in an alpha gas atmosphere and hatched from an egg. It feeds off atomic radiation. His powers are: Energy Absorption because he feeds on nuclear radiation, Energy Projection, since after consuming enough radiation, he can project energy back out to attack, and Energy Construct Creation: With enough radiation, he can build stable basic structures. However, his weakness is genetic instability. Four-Armed Terror is also powerful enough to rip through metal plates and use their backs to dig through rock. The Four-Armed Terror, like the majority of experimental DNAliens, experience potentially lethal genetic instability, which they counteract by ingesting radioactive material.

61. Rune

Rune is a mystery vampire-like entity who must feed off the life-force of other super-humans in order to withstand the effects of an Alien Cancer. Rune began his life as an anthropomorphic extraterrestrial collecting Star Stones, which made him eternal.

The Star Stones’ effects did more than provide him endless life; they also cursed him to live in a monstrous body, as well as instilling in him a need for blood. Rune has gained a number of powers and abilities thanks to the Star Stones and his vampire-like nature, including superhuman durability, superhuman strength, the ability to cast spells with the help of his sorcerer training, clairvoyance, the ability to heal from decapitation and dismemberment, the ability to fly using his bat-like wings, the ability to occasionally create illusions to appear human, tremendous speed, precognition, teleportation, and psychometry. Additionally, by ingesting an “Ultra’s” life-force, Rune can greatly increase all of his talents and powers.

60. Ghost

Ghost is a fictional comic book superhero that’s published by Dark Horse Comics. The plot revolves around Elisa Cameron’s attempt to learn the truth about her apparent death. The character is based on the Golden Age Cambridge Comics Hero “Ghost-Woman”.

Ghost was unwittingly given her abilities when the God Machine detonated in the Vortex in 1940, releasing a genetic nano-virus. Margo, her sister, was also given abilities by the nano-virus. A ghost jump is the ability to instantly transfer from one location to another. There are restrictions on this power. She must first be completely familiar with the area to which she is soaring before she may jump. She is unable to travel to a location she is unfamiliar with or has never been. The second restriction on this power relates to the people she leaps. When Ghost jumps, she first enters another dimension before exiting it and traveling to her desired location.

59. Doctor Solar

Dr. Solar was out in Atom Valley when an atomic bomb detonated prematurely. Solar’s consciousness survived despite his body being changed to pure energy and was flung into space. Through sheer will, he changes himself back to solid matter and drifts to Earth as a misty green liquid.

Phillip Solar is his full name in the original Gold Key comics. He is a nuclear physicist whose expertise is matter-to-energy conversion. Dr. Solar is immune to physical harm, substances, and gunshots, but if he ever expends too much energy, it can kill him. Even when Solar is not dressed as himself, he must wear safety goggles to prevent harm from coming to him from his lightning vision. Unfortunately, Solar is so dangerously radioactive that he can only have brief interactions with other people while wearing his cadmium-lined garments. He spends the remainder of his time in a lab in Atom Valley’s isolation room.