Rocket Raccoon
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Rocket Raccoon was a raccoon comic book fictional character in the Marvel Universe. He first appeared as a guest character in the Incredible Hulk series.
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[edit] Creative origins
The character was consciously inspired by the classic Beatles song "Rocky Raccoon" which included some elements such as the purported sum of all knowledge on that colony was a book called "Gideon's Bible".
[edit] Publication history
The character later starred in a mini-series where his friends later cured the inmates of their mental illnesses and then took off into space for their own adventures. This mini-series was illustrated by Mike Mignola, of later Hellboy fame.
During Peter David's run on the Hulk series, the title character went into space and David addressed reader requests for Rocket's reappearance (he disliked the character) by showing he was killed and skinned by one of the story's villains.
In 2007, Rocket Raccoon will make an appearance on the cover of the first issue of the Annhilation Conquest: Starlord limited series. [1][2]
[edit] Fictional character biography
A member of an abandoned colony for the mentally ill where the animal companions were genetically manipulated to grant them human level intelligence and bipedal body construction for many to become caretakers of the inmates. Rocket was a guard who protected the colony against various threats.
[edit] Notable appearances
- Incredible Hulk #271: Title: "Now Somewhere In the Black Holes of Sirius Major There Lived a Young Boy Named Rocket Raccoon" May 1982.
- Rocket Raccoon: Four Issue Limited Series #1 - #4: Titles: "Rocket Raccoon/Animal Crackers," "The Masque of the Red Breath," "The Book of Revelations," and "The Age of Enlightenment" May - August 1985.
- Quasar #15 "Death Watch" October 1990
- Sensational She-Hulk, The #44: "Cognito" October 1992.
- Sensational She-Hulk, The #45: "Change of Mine..." November 1992.
- Sensational She-Hulk, The #46: "Oops!" December 1992.
- Rocket also appeared in some of the back-up stories in the Transformers (Marvel UK) series - These were reprints of the limited series #1 through #4.
[edit] References
- ^ GETTING EXCLUSIVE AT MARVEL’S CUP O’ JOE. WizardUniverse.com. Retrieved on February 25, 2007.
- ^ Image. WizardUniverse.com. Retrieved on February 25, 2007.
