{"id":2156627,"date":"2025-11-14T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2156627"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:32:26","slug":"the-rocketeer-flies-again-with-new-comic-series-adapted-from-unused-dave-stevens-story-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-rocketeer-flies-again-with-new-comic-series-adapted-from-unused-dave-stevens-story-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Rocketeer\u2019 Flies Again With New Comic Series Adapted From Unused Dave Stevens Story | Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102803\/\">The Rocketeer<\/a>\u201d returns.<\/p>\n<p>Created by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0828349\/\">Dave Stevens<\/a>, the property was memorably brought to life by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0008970\/\">Walt Disney Pictures<\/a> in a 1991 live-action adventure starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001004\/\">Billy Campbell<\/a> as daredevil pilot Cliff Secord who, in a twist of fate, finds a jet pack and becomes The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14303160\/\">Rocketeer<\/a>. And now the character is returning via a new comic book series \u201cThe Rocketeer: The Island,\u201d based on a never-published outline by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11384434\/\">Stevens<\/a> himself, arriving in comic book stores in February 2026 courtesy of Idw.<\/p>\n<p>Written by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4899328\/\">John Layman<\/a> and featuring art by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3895056\/\">Jacob Edgar<\/a>, with colors from K.J. D\u00edaz, this new adventure \u201cbrings readers back to 1938 as Cliff Secord, a.k.a. The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102803\/\">Rocketeer<\/a>, returns to save <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0247208\/\">Amelia Earhart<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Rocketeer\u201d returns. Created by Dave Stevens, the property was memorably brought to life by Walt Disney Pictures in a 1991 live-action adventure starring Billy Campbell as daredevil pilot Cliff Secord who, in a twist of fate, finds a jet pack and becomes The Rocketeer. And now the character is returning via a new comic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2156628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2156627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018The-Rocketeer-Flies-Again-With-New-Comic-Series-Adapted-From.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156629,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156627\/revisions\/2156629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}