Lurchi is the advertising comic character of the German Salamander shoe factories. Fittingly, he is a fire salamander. His adventures are told (in German) in small booklets titled Lurchi’s Abenteuer. They are targeted mainly at primary schoolers, written in calligraphic handwriting in simple rhyming couplets.

Five friends help Lurchi in his adventures:
Hopps the frog, clearly Lurchi's best buddy, ever curious, cheeky and adventurous.
Piping the dwarf, the elder of the group, cautious and conservative, but also a tinkerer.
Mäusepiep the mouse, fearful and sometimes clumsy.
Igelmann the hedgehog, homelike and relaxed. He's the only character whose species plays a role in the stories every now and then, due to his spikes.
Unkerich, the Yellow-bellied toad, generally the "strong man" of the group, he also loves eating and is sometimes shown a bit clumsy.
Sometimes also Trine, Lurchi's sister (and naturally also a salamander) appeared.

the one black and yellow salamander, who is completely nude except for his shoes...that freaks me out

Aggh, more stuff to hunt down. I need that gnome now.

i could of gotten the salamander and procupine, but passed on them..bad choices

Weird, ain't it? And the green frog and the yellow toad wear just as much. Still, even as a kid I thought that "Lurchi" was looking kinda freaky with just the shoes on. The strangest thing though is that the same thought never occurred to me with Donald Duck. He doesn't wear any pants either!