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Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam

85 appearances · Golden Age · 1949–2025 · 3 key issues
Who is Yosemite Sam?

Yosemite Sam is a pint-sized, mustachioed gunslinger and self-proclaimed roughest, toughest outlaw in the West — his volcanic temper and twin six-shooters making him one of Bugs Bunny's most persistent adversaries across the Looney Tunes universe.

Few comic characters have kept readers grinning across eight decades quite like Yosemite Sam, the blustering, mustachioed wildcard who first thundered onto the page in 1949 — a Golden Age debut that launched a run stretching all the way to 2025. Published under DC's banner, he's spent those 76 years sharing ink with the cream of the Looney Tunes roster: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and Sylvester all keep him company across titles like Looney Tunes, Porky Pig, and Daffy. With 85 catalog appearances and three collector-recognized key issues to his name, Sam is far more than a supporting player — he's a genuine piece of comics history, proof that the loudest personality in the room has a way of sticking around.

⚠ Identity — our best guess (help us confirm)

Real name. Yosemite Sam (no consistent surname; occasionally "Sam")

Powers. None; ordinary human. Gunslinging outlaw/prospector with a hair-trigger temper, dual six-shooters.

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Teams & affiliations
Looney Tunes
Bugs Bunny [Quaker Puffed Rice/Wheat - B Series]
#1
★ First appearance
Bugs Bunny [Quaker Puffed Rice/Wheat - B Series] #1
Jul 1949

Top series

Covers through the years — 1951–2020

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #120 1951
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #120
Porky Pig #46 1956
Porky Pig #46
Porky Pig #70 1960
Porky Pig #70
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #147 1977
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #147
Cracked #267 1991
Cracked #267
Looney Tunes #1 1994
Looney Tunes #1
Bugs Bunny and Friends #[nn] 1998
Bugs Bunny and Friends #[nn]
Looney Tunes #113 2004
Looney Tunes #113
Looney Tunes #192 2011
Looney Tunes #192
Looney Tunes #228 2016
Looney Tunes #228
Looney Tunes #252 2020
Looney Tunes #252

Appearances

Bugs Bunny [Quaker Puffed Rice/Wheat - B Series] (1949)
#1
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (1950)
Four Color (1942)
Bugs Bunny (1952)
Bugs Bunny's Trick 'n' Treat Halloween Fun (1955)
Daffy (1956)
Bugs Bunny's County Fair (1957)
#1
Golden Comics Digest (1969)
Yosemite Sam (1970)
Beep Beep the Road Runner (1966)
#37
Daffy Duck (1962)
New Terrytoons (1962)
#35
The Little Monsters (1964)
Underdog (1975)
#7
Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1965)
#62
Gold Key Spotlight (1976)
#2
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge (1963)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
#6
Laugh Comics / Laugh (1946)
Cracked (1985)
Space Jam (1996)
Bugs Bunny and Friends (1998)
Lab Rats (2002)
#4
Looney Tunes: Back in Action Movie Adaptation (2003)
#1
Justice League Unlimited [Free Comic Book Day Edition] (2006)
#1
Looney Tunes Greatest Hits (2016)
#2
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Batman by Tom King (2024)
#1