Al Bundy

Al Bundy is the comic-book adaptation of the iconic TV sitcom character — a perpetually put-upon Chicago shoe salesman and family man whose miserable yet comedic domestic life made him a defining figure of late-'80s and early-'90s pop culture.

Few characters capture the blue-collar absurdity of early-'90s pop culture quite like this comic incarnation of Al Bundy, who made his four-color debut in Cracked #260 in 1991, brought to the page by the creative team of Jerry De Fuccio, Lou Silverstone, and Frank Borth. A Copper/Modern Age creation published by Now, Al's comics presence is a compact but collector-notable one — six appearances across titles including Cracked and Married... with Children: Flashback, with two of those issues carrying genuine key-issue status worth tracking down. He keeps wonderfully chaotic company on these pages, sharing adventures with Peggy Bundy, Bud Bundy, and even the likes of The Green Hornet and Kato, making for some of the most delightfully unexpected crossover energy of the era. It's a short run, but for fans of that particular moment when TV's most lovably hapless everyman leapt into comics, this little corner of the Now Comics catalog is a genuinely fun piece of early-'90s nostalgia worth seeking out.