"Rowdy" Roddy Piper

'Rowdy' Roddy Piper is the comics adaptation of the real-life WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler, one of the sport's most notorious villains-turned-icons, appearing in licensed WWF/WWE comic titles as a fictional version of his ring persona.

Few figures from the squared circle have made the leap to four-color pages with quite the electricity of "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, who first cracked open the comics world in 1991 with a debut in World Wrestling Federation Ultimate Warrior's Workout — right at the dawn of the Copper/Modern Age crossover between sports entertainment and sequential art. Over a remarkable 28-year comics presence spanning titles like WWE Superstars, World Wrestling Federation Battlemania, and WWE Heroes, Piper carved out a genuine place in the medium, sharing pages with an extraordinary roster that includes The Undertaker, John Cena, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Big Show, and The Ultimate Warrior himself. Published through NBM, his comics appearances capture the same larger-than-life charisma that made him one of wrestling's most unforgettable personalities, and for collectors who love their pop culture worlds colliding, tracking down his 20 catalog appearances is a gloriously fun rabbit hole to dive into.