Stimpy

Few characters from the early '90s comics boom carry quite the anarchic charm of Stimpy, who made his four-color debut in San Diego Comic Con Comics #1 in 1992 — a Copper/Modern Age arrival that brought the beloved animated oddball into Marvel's hands with a creative team that included Joe Quesada and John Paul Leon. His natural home is The Ren & Stimpy Show series, where he shares adventures with his perpetual companion Ren Höek and fan-favorite figures like Powdered Toast Man, but his catalog footprint stretches surprisingly wide, turning up alongside the likes of Supergirl and Madman in a delightful cross-publisher assortment of appearances that spans all the way to 2024. With 32 years of comics history and a debut issue that doubles as a genuine convention collectible, Stimpy is a warm, wonderfully weird reminder that the early Modern Age had a gleeful, irreverent side worth revisiting.