About Acme

About Acme

ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ("Buddy's Bug Hunt/1935") to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence. For the first time ever, information and pictures of all ACME products, specialty divisions, and services (from 1935 to 1964) are gathered here, in one convenient catalog.

What Acme does IS rocket science. If you wanna win the race, it’s Acme all the way. Beyond amazed.

Speedy Chaparral

Acme makes the best rocket-powered products, hands down. If you ever have the need to catch a roadrunner, put your trust in Acme.

Sly B. Wolf

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Acme Goes Strong in Mass Media

The name "Acme" is used as a generic corporate name in a huge number of cartoons, comics, television shows (as early as an I Love Lucy episode), and film (as early as Buster Keaton's 1920 silent film Neighbors and Harold Lloyd's 1922 film Grandma's Boy).

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Acme Rocket-Powered Products, Inc. Now Offers Tungite

Before Road Runner, an "Acme Company" which controls the production and sale of the fictional element "tungite" appears in the 1940 serial Mysterious Doctor Satan.

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Acme Corporation, Going Strong Since 1920

The name Acme became popular for businesses by the 1920s, when alphabetized business telephone directories such as the Yellow Pages began to be widespread.

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