Q: I have been trying to find the issues that featured the “Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme Corp.” trial. It was a very funny trial of the Acme Corp selling defective products. I believe it ran in the late ’70’s early 80’s and it was at least three parts.
A: The title was “Cliff-Hanger Justice,” by Joey Green. It ran in three parts in the August, September, and October ’82 issues.
One of the covers was of a smiling Japanese construction foreman overseeing the replacement of the ‘R’ in Chrysler with an ‘L’ in the background. Chrysler had recently been bailed out by the Federal Govt.
i remember this issue and the article….very funny.
there is something similar that i found on-line. see these links
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/fun19.htm
http://www.torinfo.com/justforlaughs/coyote_v_acme.html
in 1990, Ian Frazier ripped this idea off and re-packaged it for the New Yorker. It later became the title of a collection of his essays.
A lot of people seem to have had this idea. I just got hold of a book from 2006 called “The Acme Catalog” by Charles Carny and Scott Glass (Chronicle Books). It was done with Warner Bros. blessing and involvement.