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The Rocketeer: The Island

Illustrated by Jacob Edgar
Paperback
6-5/8"W x 10-3/16"H | 13 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Nov 10, 2026 | 96 Pages | 9798887245232
Rated T+

The Rocketeer embarks on a search for Amelia Earhart! Based on a story by Dave Stevens, the Rocketeer is about to go somewhere more dangerous than he’s ever been!

Some mysteries have the greatest explanations.

The year is 1938 and Cliff Secord (a.k.a. the Rocketeer) is recruited to lead a search-and-rescue mission. That mission? Find Amelia Earhart! Considering a year has passed since the famous pilot went missing, the Rocketeer is hesitant at first. That is, until he learns the expedition is to the same island Betty ran off to with the sleazy photographer Marco! 

The Rocketeer will have to uncover the secret of the century’s greatest mystery while trying to win back his girlfriend! But what else awaits him on the island?

Beloved writer John Layman (Chew, Titans) and artistic powerhouse Jacob Edgar (Plastic Man: No More, The Ones) team up to tell the wildest Rocketeer story ever! Based on a never-published outline by Rocketeer-creator Dave Stevens!
John Layman is the creator, writer and letterer of Chew, the New York Times best-selling, Harvey Award– and multiple Eisner Award–winning cannibal cop comedy series from Image Comics. Layman was an editor for WildStorm Productions and has written or lettered for every major publisher in comics for the last decade and a half. He’s written Cyclops, Detective Comics, Mars Attacks, Godzilla, Aliens, Thundercats, Gambit, Scarface, Red Sonja, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness, House of M: Fantastic Four, the Marvel Identity Wars annuals, Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen…and a whole lotta other stuff.
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About

The Rocketeer embarks on a search for Amelia Earhart! Based on a story by Dave Stevens, the Rocketeer is about to go somewhere more dangerous than he’s ever been!

Some mysteries have the greatest explanations.

The year is 1938 and Cliff Secord (a.k.a. the Rocketeer) is recruited to lead a search-and-rescue mission. That mission? Find Amelia Earhart! Considering a year has passed since the famous pilot went missing, the Rocketeer is hesitant at first. That is, until he learns the expedition is to the same island Betty ran off to with the sleazy photographer Marco! 

The Rocketeer will have to uncover the secret of the century’s greatest mystery while trying to win back his girlfriend! But what else awaits him on the island?

Beloved writer John Layman (Chew, Titans) and artistic powerhouse Jacob Edgar (Plastic Man: No More, The Ones) team up to tell the wildest Rocketeer story ever! Based on a never-published outline by Rocketeer-creator Dave Stevens!

Creators

John Layman is the creator, writer and letterer of Chew, the New York Times best-selling, Harvey Award– and multiple Eisner Award–winning cannibal cop comedy series from Image Comics. Layman was an editor for WildStorm Productions and has written or lettered for every major publisher in comics for the last decade and a half. He’s written Cyclops, Detective Comics, Mars Attacks, Godzilla, Aliens, Thundercats, Gambit, Scarface, Red Sonja, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness, House of M: Fantastic Four, the Marvel Identity Wars annuals, Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen…and a whole lotta other stuff.
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