Bebop

Bebop is a street punk and petty criminal who was mutated into a humanoid warthog by the Shredder's Foot Clan, becoming one of their dim-witted but loyal enforcers in their ongoing war against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Few villain sidekicks from the late '80s comics boom have stuck around in the cultural imagination quite like Bebop, who burst onto the page in 1988's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #1 from Archie Comics, courtesy of creators Michael Dooney and David Wise. A Copper Age troublemaker through and through, Bebop spent over two decades causing mayhem alongside the likes of Rocksteady while squaring off against Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo across the beloved TMNT Adventures run. His presence in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 30th Anniversary Special and even the pages of Mad magazine speaks to a character with genuine comedic staying power and cross-publication appeal. If you're building out your Turtle-era Archie collection, Bebop is the kind of chaotic, era-defining presence that makes those issues so irresistibly fun to track down.