The Rocketeer Flies Again With Help From New Creators

By Graeme McMillan | @graemem | July 25, 2010 | +

Two years after the death of its creator, Dave Stevens’ celebrated comic character The Rocketeer is set to reappear next year in four issues of all-new stories from some of the comic industry’s favorite creators, including Darwyn Cooke, Bruce Timm, Gene Ha and John Cassaday. Announced yesterday by IDW, who published the Eisner-Award winning The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures collection of Stevens’ original strips, each issue of the new series, featuring a cover by Marvels and Kingdom Come artist Alex Ross, will be launched at some unnamed point in 2011.

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