Later, in the mid-1980s, Marvel published a four-issue limited series with Rocket as the central character of his own before becoming a member of the relaunched Guardians of the Galaxy in 2008.
It was even Rocket who recommended the name, having once heard it mentioned by founding member Major Vance Astro.
If you thought Rocket Raccoon’s name sounded a little too much like a Beatles reference, it is not be by accident.
Even his origins are inspired by “Rocky Raccoon,” a song off of The White Album, given that the title of one of his first comic book appearances, in The Incredible Hulk #271 in 1982 (“Now Somewhere In the Black Holes of Sirius Major There Lived a Young Boy Named Rocket Raccoon”), references the lyrics.