Poppa Wheelie

Poppa Wheelie is a supporting character in Marvel's trucking-themed series U.S. 1, part of the colorful ensemble surrounding protagonist U.S. Archer in a world of CB radio culture and highway adventure.

Few corners of Marvel's Bronze Age are as delightfully offbeat as U.S. 1, the 1983 trucking-themed series conjured up by Al Milgrom and Herb Trimpe — and Poppa Wheelie is part of that gloriously quirky ensemble. Rolling through all eleven catalogued appearances alongside colorful characters like U.S. Archer, Wide-Load Annie, and the Wheeler family, this character is a small but genuine piece of a Marvel experiment unlike anything else on the spinner racks of the early '80s. U.S. 1 occupies its own lane in comics history, and Poppa Wheelie is one of the familiar faces that gives that world its homespun personality. For collectors with a taste for the road less traveled in Bronze Age Marvel, this is exactly the kind of character that makes digging through back-issue bins such a rewarding adventure.