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Contents 1 Discussion 2 First appearance confusion 3 Rewrite request 4 This is... no

[edit] Discussion

I don't know where DoctorWorm7 gets off doing this, but I wrote this article completely out of my own memory of the comic which I have in my own collection.

And no, I can't prove it because the text was written on the fly and there is no way I can prove a negative. Rather, DoctorWorm7 has to prove that I plaigerized, which is impossible. Furthermore, after examining the text, I assert it plaigerized from this article.

--kchishol1970 13:52, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Online source was published 10.26.2005 about a month after this article was written. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 19:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] First appearance confusion

Did RR first appear in Hulk vol. 2 #271, or in Marvel Preview #7 (Summer 1976)? This effects the creators: are they Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema, and Al Milgrom or Terry Austin, Bill Mantlo, and Keith Giffen. The page got updated here. Someone who knows, please comment. - Peregrine Fisher 06:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Just from my memory of being a comics fan at the time, his first appearance was indeed the Incredible Hulk. I don't have the Marvel Preview issue, but the only references on the web to Rocket Raccoon even being in that issue are wikipedia references. Looks like wrong information to me. Ocicat 02:54, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

link this shows a picture of "Rocket Raccoon" in "Earth:Sword in the Star" (in the Plagueosaur section). It is issue #7 of Marvel Preview (Summer 1976). This is an enigma. Antmusic 17:34, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe says that it is Rocket in Marvel Preview #7 here, but since he is unnamed in the issue, I will agree that he may be alleged, especially since it is 10,000 plus years in the future. Unless Rocket time travels a lot.... Does he time travel? Anyone?? Maybe it is one of Rocket's relatives (apart by a few 1000 generations). It is also possible that Bill Mantlo liked the design and idea behind his previous heroic 1976 raccoon and created a brand new raccoon character. I haven't read Marvel Preview #7, so I don't know if there are similar mannerisms or not. Antmusic (talk) 22:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

If the Handbook says it's Rocket, then it's Rocket. He's shown no time travel abilities in any of his other appearances, but the Handbook entry makes it pretty clear that he has travelled in time. Kelvingreen (talk) 22:29, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Excuse me, but while I admit to not having seen these comics in many years, my memory is quite clear that the Rocket Raccoon miniseries also picked up the Sword in the Star's long-dangling plotlines. If so, then "alleged" must go out the window. Can anyone verify or refute? BTW, "Earth" is in no way, shape, or form part of the Preview feature's title, and in any event must come out, just as a few spacing errors must be corrected, but I'll wait until this question is settled. Ted Watson (talk) 19:42, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I finally picked up a copy of Marvel Preview #7 and #4... no Raccoons in #4, but issue #7 has a Raccoon starting on pages 56-62 and he calls himself "Rocky" on page 57. He speaks with a cockney (?) accent ("old bean," "I say old man," "Old sock," "Jolly good show," "Sticky wicket," etc...). He isn't wearing his rocket boots, and he is wearing some sort gladiator armor. Hmmm. Antmusic (talk) 03:34, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite request

Can someone who understands this rewrite it so it is coherent? "...which included some elements such as the purported sum of all knowledge on that colony was a book called "Gideon's Bible"." 82.152.209.198 (talk) 23:10, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I re-wrote it: "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")." Antmusic (talk) 16:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This is... no

There is a consensus among comic book writers and editors that Rocket Raccoon is the best comic book character of all time.

Not true at all! Andraxx (talk) 15:03, 6 January 2008 (UTC)