Joel Gill

Decades before he had his own break-out TV show starring John Cena, Peacemaker got his start in the pages of comic books! Experience the earliest days of Christopher Smith, a man who loves peace so much he’s willing to kill for it in this brand-new collection! DC Finest continues, a major publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras! Christopher Smith is a peace envoy and diplomat whose entire life is dedicated to the elimination of war between men. In fact, he loves peace so much that he is willing to do anything to preserve it…including fighting for it. Christopher Smith is the Peacemaker! Discover the comics origin of the character from the hit show on Max in his very own DC Finest volume, collecting Peacemaker’s never-before-reprinted comics debut from The Fightin’ 5 #40-41, the five-issue miniseries from 1967, Peacemaker #1-4, and his cameos from the pages of Checkmate #16-26, #28, and #32-33, Suicide Squad #27-30, Vigilante #37-38 and #41-43, and Eclipso #11-13.

Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a series of brutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question everything he has learned about what it truly means to fight for one's life. Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods.