The Good Guys Of The Galaxy!
Like the second iteration of the Guardians themselves, the team is made up of nigh forgotten characters from a host of genres.
One stalwart if MLJ's Golden Age superhero of the animal set -- the mighty Super Duck. While he dropped the Super Duck gig pretty quickly and became a more commonplace figure not unlike his predecessor Donald and his later variant Howard, we have Super Duck here in his full heroic regalia.
Also on hand is a Silver Age great, the space explorer and Buck Roger wannabe turned superhero wannabe the tragically traditionally handsome Captain Sprocket.
Sprocket was a somewhat regular denizen of Archie's Madhouse comic, a magazine which slid between genres almost on a monthly basis.
A case in point is fellow hero the downright weird Captain Pumpernik. Above you see all two pages of his debut appearance in Archie's Madhouse #50. He's a bizarro blend of Bela Lugosi and Buster Crabbe by way of Lou Costello.
The final member of this wacko team is Cat Girl who debuted in Adventures of the Fly in Archie's Silver Age attempt to revive its MLJ heroes.
As far as I can find out she appeared in two later issues of The Adventures of the Jaguar a year or so later.
So with this set up you see the similarity. A washed up superhero from another era (Captain Sprocket and Starlord), a crossover talking animal (Super Duck and Rocket Racoon), a deadly femme fatale (Cat Girl and Gamora), and...well I can't make Pumpernik fit unless he's supposed to be Drax the Destroyer (Drax and "Dracs" maybe). That makes Cosmo into Groot and that doesn't work for me though they are both space critters of another era, but I'm glad he's here. I want Jughead to be Groot with his single-minded quest for a snack and of course Archie is Archie. All in all a fun batch of "heroes" and a delightful one-off comic even in these blighted times.
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