Cudley the Cowlick

Cudley the Cowlick is a giant, sentient, interdimensional flying cow head who serves as a living transport vessel, carrying passengers across dimensions. He became an unlikely ally to the Turtles and other Mutanimals within the Archie TMNT Adventures universe.

Few comic characters make a first impression quite like Cudley the Cowlick — a giant, interdimensional flying cow head who debuted in Archie's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #7 in 1989, right in the thick of the Copper Age's anything-goes creative energy. A fixture of that wonderfully weird corner of the TMNT universe, Cudley turns up across TMNT Adventures, Mighty Mutanimals, and Conservation Corps, sharing pages with Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and the fearsome Leatherhead. With 18 catalog appearances across a run stretching into the mid-'90s, this bovine cosmic oddity is proof that Archie's TMNT line had an imagination all its own — wilder, stranger, and more expansive than almost anything else on the spinner rack.