Wild Dog (comics)

Wild Dog
Interior artwork from Who's Who: Update '87 5 (December 1987 DC Comics). Art by Terry Beatty.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Wild Dog #1 (September 1987)
Created by	Max Allan Collins (writer) Terry Beatty (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Jack Wheeler
Team affiliations	United States Marine Corps
Abilities	Expert marksman and hand-to-hand combatant

Wild Dog is a fictional character, a vigilante and a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Wild Dog #1 (September 1987), and was created by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty.

The character appears in Arrow (TV Series), where his alter-ego is Rene Ramirez. He is played by Rick Gonzalez .

Wild Dog first appeared in a four issue mini-series (issue #1, cover date September 1987). The series is credited to Max Allan Collins, Terry Beatty and Dick Giordano. Shortly thereafter, the character appeared in Action Comics Weekly. Normally a Superman title, at the time Action Comics was going through an incarnation as a high-page-count weekly anthology title with serialized episodes of various characters' ongoing stories appearing in each issue. There were three major Wild Dog story arcs in Action Comics Weekly; after the third, the character appeared in a one-shot Wild Dog Special. Wild Dog's final appearance in Action Comics Weekly was issue #641 (cover date March 7, 1989). The last issue of Action Comics Weekly was #642, after which the book went back to its standard format of monthly Superman stories.

Jack Wheeler would return as a supporting character in Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye, a 2016 Young Animal series written by Gerard Way and Jon Rivera.

Jack Wheeler went to college on a football scholarship. He dropped out due to an injury and enlisted in the Marines to complete his education. He quit that after most of his squad was killed by a terrorist bomb. He returned to the Quad Cities and began taking night classes. He started dating a fellow student named Claire and fell in love with her. His new girlfriend soon began experiencing "accidents" and was ultimately shot dead in front of Jack while the pair were on a date. Afterwards, it was revealed she was secretly the daughter of a Chicago crime boss who left her family to start a new life for herself.