Star Wars loves nothing more than understanding a villain. Part of the reason the franchise’s greatest evils are also some of its most compelling characters is because it loves to dive deep into understanding why these figures are the way they are.
There are a lot of things you could do with a time machine, but one of the most efficiently lucrative uses would be visiting a comic-book seller in 1938, and snagging multiple copies of a certain title that would prove to be highly collectible in future decades: Action Comics #1.
In 1993, cartoonist Peter Steiner was at his desk trying to fill out his weekly quota of pitches for the New Yorker. “I didn’t always have enough ideas, so sometimes I would just draw a picture and try to dream up a caption for it,” Steiner said. He sketched out two dogs sitting in front of a computer, one in a chair…