Long before Rocket Raccoon, there was...
Take a handsome hero, a helpless heroine, a sinister villain, add spaceships and ray guns and, you've got classic 1940s-50s sci-fi action!
Except everyone's an anthropomorphic animal!
Except everyone's an anthropomorphic animal!
Unfortunately, it appeared in the last magazine the short-lived Don Fortune Publishing ever produced!
Both the writer and artist are, at this point, unknown.
But the other stories in the comic were the work of CC Beck, Otto Binder, and others who worked on the Fawcett Comics line, so the odds are that the writer and artist for Rocket Rex are also from that ensenble.
Fawcett financed or gave credit to aspiring new publishers in 1946. They wanted to enlarge their ditribution volume as the prime motive. But there was suddenly too stuff on newsstands, paper was hard to obtain and much more expensive. Fawcett pulled back on the new lines of comic books. But they had profitable magazines with good advertising revenue, and eventually became pioneers of new paperback novels.
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