King Hippo

King Hippo is a rotund villain who appears in the Nintendo Comics System universe, joining forces with the villainous Mother Brain against Captain N and his allies. He crossed over from the Punch-Out!! video game franchise into comics via Acclaim/Valiant titles like Captain N: The Game Master.

A rotund villain of the Copper Age, King Hippo stomped onto the page in Archie 3000 #5 in 1989, quickly finding his true home in the Nintendo Comics System universe published by Acclaim/Valiant. Across titles like Captain N: The Game Master and Adventures of the Super Mario Bros., he shares the page with a colorful cast including Kevin Keene, Princess Lana, and the villainous Mother Brain, making him a fixture of that wonderfully chaotic early-'90s video-game comics scene. With 16 appearances spread across some of the most nostalgic licensed comics of the era, he's a delightful piece of gaming and comics history rolled into one — the kind of character that stops a longtime collector cold with a rush of pure recognition.