Stimpy

Stimpy is the good-natured, dim-witted cat from the cult animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show, adapted into comics published by Marvel. He is Ren's devoted companion, known for his cheerful obliviousness and boundless enthusiasm.

Few characters from the early '90s comics boom carry quite the anarchic charm of Stimpy, who made his four-color debut in San Diego Comic Con Comics #1 in 1992 — a Copper/Modern Age arrival that brought the beloved animated oddball into Marvel's hands with a creative team that included Joe Quesada and John Paul Leon. His natural home is The Ren & Stimpy Show series, where he shares adventures with his perpetual companion Ren Höek and fan-favorite figures like Powdered Toast Man, but his catalog footprint stretches surprisingly wide, turning up alongside the likes of Supergirl and Madman in a delightful cross-publisher assortment of appearances that spans all the way to 2024. With 32 years of comics history and a debut issue that doubles as a genuine convention collectible, Stimpy is a warm, wonderfully weird reminder that the early Modern Age had a gleeful, irreverent side worth revisiting.