Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Door"

It's an Odd Premise to Base a Story On...

...but when it comes down to it, High Adventure can result from almost any situation!

Now that's an Amazing High Adventure!

No monsters!

No aliens!

Nothing supernatural!

Just a guy against the world...ready to keep on going!

Two extremely-underrated talents, Bill Mantlo and John Severin, produced this never-reprinted tale about the indomitable Human Spirit for Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #4 (1986), which, sadly, never had a sequel!

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Reading Room MARVEL PREVIEW "Sword in the Star: Stave Two: WitchWorld"

He, along with Groot, is the breakout star of the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie...

...but Rocket Raccoon had a far more inauspicous debut than most of his co-stars.

It began in Marvel Preview #7 (1976), in the second part of a space opera about a somewhat thick-headed space prince called Sword in the Star, as the lead character looked around on a new world for something to eat...

That's not Rocket in Panel 3...

And, that's not Groot in Panel 3 of this page...

It was, in fact, the final installment of Sword in the Star.

The "sticky wicket" created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Keith Giffen was never resolved.

Mantlo explained the problem in a text feature at the end of the issue (which you can click on to enlarge and read)...

When next we saw Rocket Raccoon, it was several years later in the pages of Incredible Hulk (also written by Mantlo)...minus his British accent and without an explanation as to how he survived.

(BTW, Wayfinder also returned...in the pages of the Mantlo-scripted Micronauts, where he travelled into the distant past to become the founder of the Microverse!

Meet Rocket Raccoon...

Unlike Guardians of the Galaxy team-mates Groot and Star-Lord, he didn't get a solor story or cover pic...

...in fact, he didn't even show up until mid-way through the story...which was cancelled on a cliffhanger (which was never resolved) a few pages later!

Be here on Monday (after you've seen Guardians of the Galaxy) to read his first appearance.