Rocket Rockne!

Robert "Rocket" Rockne was an award-winning researcher in technology and a championship quarterback at Big City State University . . . until the fateful day when disaster struck his home town, taking the lives of thousands (including his parents) with it! Faced with the choice of easy fame as an athlete or using his brain power to help protect his city, Rocket chose to make a difference in the world. Building a vast fortune through his technological innovations, he now uses his wealth, inventions, and skill to protect the city that has been so good to him - protecting it as both action hero and philanthropist . . .

Larry's Kitchen #41 (7/02; two page episode; currently out of print)

Rocket debuts in an episode of Flamin' Frank's strip to save the denizens of the Continuity and Vine neighborhood from the crashing moonship of the evil Lunar Lunatic!

Magnet Man Minicomics #39 (11/04)

While Dale was not making good use of his creation, Rocket makes an issue-length guest-starring appearance in this issue of Brien Wayne Powell's hilarously-written minicomic series. And Dale even pulls a “special guest artist” credit for the issue (he did draw it, after all)! 16 page mini available direct from Brien Wayne Powell!

Larry's Kitchen #76 (5/06; six page episode; currently out of print)

Rocket's adventures pick up as he deals with the defeated Lunar Lunatic and delivers the moonship to his upstate research park. The forcefield-wielding villain the Generator stages a bank heist . . .

Larry's Kitchen #77 (6/06; five page episode; currently out of print)

We get at glimpse of Rocket's philanthropic mission (focusing his efforts to make Big City the best city it can be), and he's called on site to corrall the Generator's failed heist.

Larry's Kitchen #78 (9/06, six page episode)

Rocket battles the Generator in a no-holds barred throwdown! Using his brains (in addition to some moves from his days with the BCSU Giants), Rocket defeats his foe. Meanwhile, an evil entity is exiled from its own dimension to our solar system . . .

Larry's Kitchen #79 (1/07, seven page episode)

While Rocket and his friend (and fellow adventurer) Tank Thompson hold vigil over their former BCSU coach at the hospital, a fleet of Corrupt-o-bots attack Rocket's suburban research campus . . . and he has no idea the attack is occuring!

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