Some of older characters from DAZ  home website will work without the V4.2 morphs  But to get the most out of  charaters you are buting you need the morphs to get the face and body shape

A good way to save cash is go ahead and buy the morph package from DAZ (go ahead and get the Michael ++ morphs too) and then get free characters from shareCG   the free charaters there do work very well

Also  Apollo Maximus is free along with the face and body morphs and if you have alot of time on your hands you can morph Apollo into Apollonia