High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rip Hunter is a DC Comics character who first appeared in Showcase #20 (May 1959). Following three more appearances in Showcase (#21, 25, 26), Rip Hunter was given his own series; which ran for 29 issues (1961–65). He later starred in the eight-issue Time Masters series (1990), written by Bob Wayne and Lewis Shiner. He was created by Jack Miller and Ruben Moreira.