Rocket Raccoon
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| Rocket Raccoon | |
 Rocket Raccoon Art by Nic Klein. |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #271 (May 1982) |
| Created by | Bill Mantlo Sal Buscema Al Milgrom |
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| Team affiliations | Guardians of the Galaxy |
Rocket Raccoon is a raccoon comic book fictional character in the Marvel Universe. He first appeared in Incredible Hulk(vol. 2) #271 (May 1982). Rocket Raccoon is an intelligent, anthropomorphic raccoon.
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[edit] Publication history
The character was created by Bill Mantlo and consciously inspired by the classic Beatles song "Rocky Raccoon" which included "Gideon's Bible" (in the comic book limited-series it was a book that contained the sum of all knowledge on the "loony colony").
Rocket Raccoon first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #271. He later had his own four-issue limited-series. This limited-series was penciled by Mike Mignola and inked by Al Gordon. Issue #3 was inked by Al Milgrom
[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.
Rocket Raccoon acts as the "Guardian of the Keystone Quadrant," an area of outer space sealed off from the rest of the cosmos by the so-called Galacian Wall. Rocket is captain of the starship Rack 'n' Ruin, and he and his first mate Wal Russ (a talking walrus) come from the planet Halfworld, half of which is inhabited by other talking animals, and half of which is inhabited by automatons.
Rocket Raccoon and his friends later cured the inmates of their mental illnesses and then took off into space for their own adventures. [1]
During Peter David's run on the Hulk series, Rocket Raccoon went into space and David addressed reader requests for Rocket's reappearance by implying that he had been killed by the aliens known as the Troyjans, who had a pelt mounted on the wall that looked like Rocket's. With Rocket reappearing alive after this story, it can be assumed that the pelt belonged to some other raccoon instead.[2]
In 2007, Rocket Raccoon returned in the Annihilation: Conquest - Star-Lord limited series. [3][4] Rocket Raccoon is depicted as a gifted military tactician who is also fearless, loyal, and insightful.
According to Marvel's official website Rocket Raccoon will continue his new adventures as a part of the team Guardians of the Galaxy along with other characters from the Annihilation: Conquest series).[5] Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, #1 was released in May 2008.
[edit] Notable appearances
- Marvel Preview #7, 1976 (Alleged) (some sources say the story "Earth:Sword in the Star" is the first appearance of Rocket Raccoon because it is co-created by Bill Mantlo, and features a futuristic raccoon named "Rocky" that looks a lot like the 1985 limited series version of Rocket [6])
- Incredible Hulk #271: Title: "Now Somewhere In the Black Holes of Sirius Major There Lived a Young Boy Named Rocket Raccoon" (May 1982)
- Marvel Age, #25 (April 1985)
- Rocket Raccoon (four issue limited series) #1 - #4 (May - August 1985):
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- "Rocket Raccoon/Animal Crackers"
- "The Masque of the Red Breath"
- "The Book of Revelations"
- "The Age of Enlightenment"
- Rocket Racoon's appearances in some back-up stories in the Transformers (Marvel UK) series were reprints of the limited series.
- Quasar #15 "Death Watch" (October 1990)
- Sensational She-Hulk, The #44: "Cognito" (October 1992).
- The Sensational She-Hulk, The #45: "Change of Mine..." (November 1992).
- The Sensational She-Hulk, The #46: "Oops!" (December 1992).
- Incredible Hulk #415 (Alleged) (this is a questionable appearance, the alleged hide of Rocket Raccoon or some other raccoon can be seen on Troyjan ruler Armageddon's wall) (March 1994)
- She-Hulk Volume 2, #1 (2005)
- She-Hulk Volume 2, #3 (AKA #100) (2006) (issue #3 dual-numbered as #3/#100, to signify 100th issue of a solo She-Hulk series)
- Annihilation: Conquest - Prologue (June 2007) (one-shot)
- Annihilation: Conquest - Star-Lord #1 - #4 (July - November 2007, no issue in October)
- Annihilation: Conquest #2 (December 2007)
- Annihilation: Conquest #3 (January 2008)
- Annihilation: Conquest #4 (February 2008)
- Annihilation: Conquest #5 (March 2008)
- Annihilation: Conquest #6 (April 2008)
- Guardians of the Galaxy series (scheduled to start May 14, 2008)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Rocket Raccoon limited series
- ^ The Incredible Hulk #413-16 ("The Troyjan War"), 1994, Marvel Comics, writer Peter David
- ^ GETTING EXCLUSIVE AT MARVEL’S CUP O’ JOE. WizardUniverse.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
- ^ Image. WizardUniverse.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
- ^ Greeting the Guardians: Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Newsarama, May 14, 2008
- ^ Marvel Legacy Handbook Bibliography. Marvel.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-04.
[edit] References
- Rocket Raccoon at the Comic Book DB
