Rocket Raccoon is a raccoon comic book fictional character in the Marvel Universe.

Rocket Raccoon is an intelligent, anthropomorphic raccoon.

Publication history

Cover toRocket Raccoon #1.

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".

Rocket Raccoon first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #271. He later had his own four-issue limited-series. This limited-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 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.^[1]

In 2007, Rocket Raccoon returned in the Annihilation: Conquest - Star-Lord limited series. ^[2][3]

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. ^[4]

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)
• Marvel Age, #25 (April 1985)
• Rocket Raccoon: Four Issue Limited Series #1 - #4 (May - August 1985):

1. "Rocket Raccoon/Animal Crackers"
2. "The Masque of the Red Breath"
3. "The Book of Revelations"
4. "The Age of Enlightenment"

• Rocket Racoon also appeared in some of the back-up stories in the Transformers (Marvel UK) series, but these were reprints of the limited series #1 through #4.
• 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.

References

1. ^ The Incredible Hulk #413-16 ("The Troyjan War"), 1994, Marvel Comics, writer Peter David
2. ^ GETTING EXCLUSIVE AT MARVEL’S CUP O’ JOE. WizardUniverse.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
3. ^ Image. WizardUniverse.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
4. ^ Rocket Raccoon limited series

External links

• Rocket Raccoon at norse-man.net

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