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The Rocketeer continues to soar adjacent aft the tragic passing of creator Dave Stevens. IGN tin exclusively uncover the newest Rocketeer task from IDW Publishing - The Rocketeer: Infiltrator!.
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The Rocketeer: Infiltrator is written by Gabriel Hardman (Green Lantern: Earth One) and drawn by Dean Kotz (The Savage Sword of Conan). The archetypal contented features covers by Hardman, Joe Quinones, and Eric Britton. Here's the authoritative logline for the series:
It’s the tallness of World War II, and Betty is simply a Nazi collaborator! Or truthful we’re led to believe. As Allied planes mysteriously detonate successful midair crossed Europe, rumors of a Nazi superweapon compel the U.S. to nonstop its fastest plus undercover: the Rocketeer! With Betty posing arsenic a defecting American histrion successful a German question picture, Cliff Secord, a.k.a. the Rocketeer, accompanies arsenic her member and manager. And since neither has acquisition successful deep-cover work, the Allies nonstop a handler to enactment them—a debonair MI6 cause who assumes the relation of Betty’s co-star.The Rocketeer volition request to support his cover, destruct a superweapon nary Allied cause has really seen, and support Betty distant from the handsome British concealed cause with a penchant for beauteous women. It’s a batch for a reckless stunt aviator to handle!“I’m thrilled to person this accidental to lend to the bequest of Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer," said Hardman successful a statement. "I was archetypal exposed to some the quality and Stevens’ astir impossibly lush artwork erstwhile I picked up The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine from Comico astatine a comic store arsenic a teenager. It played straight into my emotion of pulpy storytelling of the 1930s and 1940s, truthful having the accidental to archer a communicative successful that satellite feels similar a cleanable acceptable for me."
Hardman added, "We’re adding a dose of wartime espionage into the premix arsenic Cliff and Betty bring their unsocial skills to a ngo to uncover a Nazi superweapon portion utilizing Betty’s acting vocation arsenic a cover. Though they whitethorn deficiency acquisition successful the spy game, they’ll person assistance from a dashing MI6 cause who unluckily for Cliff takes an amorous involvement successful Betty. I couldn’t beryllium much excited astir collaborating with creator Dean Kotz connected this series. I’ve admired his enactment for years and this task is some a cleanable acceptable for his benignant and an perfect communicative for america to collaborate.”
“I'm truthful stoked to beryllium moving with Gabriel connected the Rocketeer: Infiltrator!" Kotz said. "Gabriel is simply a maestro of pulp storytelling, and he's cooked up an awesome spy thriller premise with truthful galore amusive things to draw. When Cliff's not wearing his rocket zipping astir WWII bombers and combatant planes, we get to spot him retired of his constituent successful the shadowy satellite of planetary espionage. Meanwhile, Betty's undercover connected a glamorous movie acceptable being romanced by a concealed agent. This publication hits each the cleanable pulp notes.”
The Rocketeer: Infiltrator! #1 volition beryllium released connected July 8, 2026, with a last bid cutoff of June 1. You tin preorder a transcript astatine your section comic shop.
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