Wile E. Coyote

A self-proclaimed 'super-genius' of the American Southwest desert, Wile E. Coyote is a perpetually hungry predator whose sole obsession is catching the elusive Road Runner. Armed with an endless catalogue of Acme gadgets and his own elaborate schemes, he somehow survives every catastrophic backfire and lives to plot again.

Few comic characters embody gleeful, relentless determination quite like Wile E. Coyote, whose print adventures launched in Beep Beep #8 in 1961 — a Silver Age debut that planted this iconic schemer firmly in the DC universe of funny-animal comics. Over an astonishing 64-year span across titles like Looney Tunes, Beep Beep the Road Runner, and Beep Beep, he's proven himself one of the most enduring presences in licensed comics, with two collector-recognized key issues marking highlights of that long road. The pages around him crackle with the best of the Looney Tunes gang — Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Sylvester all share his comic book world — making for issues that are pure, joyful chaos from cover to cover. If you love the golden era of cartoon-to-comics translation, Wile E.'s 89 catalog appearances are a wonderfully deep rabbit hole (or coyote hole) to fall into.