Media Release -- IDW is pleased to announce that this summer, Dave Stevens' legendary, high-flying avenger of the skies will soar once again! This August, renowned writer Mark Waid teams up with the inimitable Chris Samnee to bring The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom! to comic shop shelves everywhere.

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Media Release -- This July, IDW Publishing will bring you the best of the best with Dave Stevens' Covers & Stories, a collection of renowned comic artist Dave Stevens' remarkable work. This volume will showcase all the non-Rocketeer covers by Stevens, many scanned from the original art. Additionally, there will be roughs accompanying many of the covers, offering a rare insight into the artist's creative process. Besides covers, all of Stevens's highly sought-after short stories will be printed, as well as some unfinished gems.

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Media Release -- The second all-new, all-fantastic Rocketeer Adventures series launches into stores in March! Each extra-long issue—boasting 25 pages of story and art— will feature covers by Darwyn Cooke and Dave Stevens. The first issue's line-up includes Peter David, Marc Guggenheim, Sandy Plunkett, Stan Sakai, and Bill Sienkiewicz, with Arthur Adams supplying a pin-up.

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Media Release -- IDW Publishing, a premier publisher of graphic novels and books, is pleased to announce today an all-new, four-issue miniseries featuring Dave Stevens’ beloved character, The Rocketeer. Coming in 2011, IDW’s The Rocketeer mini-series will be written and drawn by some of today’s finest comics creators, including Mike Allred, Kurt Busiek, John Cassaday, Darwyn Cooke, Michael Golden, Gene Ha, Michael Kaluta, Garry Leach, Bruce Timm, Bill Willingham, and many more. Alex Ross will supply stunning covers on each issue.

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Media Release -- IDW Publishing and the estate of Dave Stevens are pleased to announce a very special book honoring the work of this esteemed creator. Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer: Artist's Edition will be a mammoth 12" x 17" hardcover book printed in glorious black and white. Nearly every page in The Rocketeer has been scanned from Stevens' original art to ensure the best possible reproduction and highest degree of accuracy. Printed on uncoated stock and at the same size as the original art, Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer: Artist's Edition will be the next best thing to holding the actual art by Dave Stevens.

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Media Release -- Available today, IDW is proud to announce The Rocketeer: The Complete Collection and The Rocketeer: The Complete Deluxe Edition. Both editions collect The Complete Rocketeer saga for the very first time, combining The Rocketeer and The Rocketeer: Cliff's New York Adventure. Dave Stevens' classic adventure strip is set in the 1930s and is an homage to the classic pulp novels of the time. Cliff Secord is a stunt pilot who happens upon a top-secret experimental Jet pack and meets adventure head on!

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Media Release -- It's not too late to place your orders for The Complete Rocketeer, and very first hardcover collection of the classic strip!

Set in the 1930s, Dave Stevens' classic adventure strip pays homage to the classic pulp novels of the time. Cliff Secord is a stunt pilot who happens upon a top-secret experimental Jet pack and meets adventure head on.

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A Suspended Animation Classic review from 1989, by R.A. Jones.

The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #s 1 & 2/Comico, publishers/$2.75 (originally)/available in comic shops/for all ages.

Everyone dreams of flying, whether with the wings of an angel or the jets of an airplane or the rockets of a space ship. Dave Stevens brings those dreams to life with his pen in the pages of "The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine." And if you share his fascination for adventure and for America in the 1930s, you're invited to soar to new heights with Cliff Secord – The Rocketeer!

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