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The Rook is a fictional, time-traveling comic book adventure hero created by Warren Publishing who first appeared in March 1977. He first appeared in Warren Publishing's ''Eerie'', ''Vampirella'' & ''Warren Presents'' magazines. In the 1980s, the Rook became popular and gained his own comic magazine title of the same name, ''The Rook Magazine''. In the 1990s, The Rook would be recreated in Harris Comics’ Chains of Chaos and The Rook comic book series. In 2014, The Rook was re-introduced in Dark Horse Comics’ Eerie Archives 17. The Rook returns with new adventures, written by Steven Grant and illustrated by Paul Gulacy in Dark Horse Presents and The Rook comic book series in 2015. The Rook was created by Bill DuBay and Budd Lewis during the dawn of Sci-Fi’s Modern Age and was influenced by pulp magazines’ heroic characters like Doc Savage.〔The Last Hero Pulp *1〕 ==Fictional character biography== Scientific industrialist Restin Dane has a penchant for dressing as an old west gun-slinger as he travels through time.〔Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns〕 Restin Dane is the grandson of Adam Dane, the man who told his story about this adventures in the future to his friend H. G. Wells, who turned his account into the book ''The Time Machine'', but at Dane's insistence withheld his name.〔The Master of Time-Comicvine *2〕 Restin Dane’s time machine is the Time Castle, a dark-energy powered vehicle that resembles a large rook chess piece; which is how Restin became known as The Rook. The Time Castle was created by Restin, with help from his grandfather’s, Adam Dane’s (the original Time Traveler *3) journals. Restin is no stranger to the space-time continuum either; having an undergraduate degree from Oxford in Engineering Science and Physics and a PhD from Caltech in both Materials Science and Applied Physics-Quantum Mechanics. While at Oxford, he discovered artificial intelligence with his creation of two sanitation robots, Nuts & Bolts. Restin would later create a more complex robotic servant known as MAN-RS, an acronym for Man’s Robotic Servant. The Rook’s journeys through time reveal the illusion of human history and the separation between past, present and future. :''The "Master of Time" finds himself alongside iconic figures of history and legend when his exploits take him from the eras of long-lost lore to the fantastic and infinite possibilities of futures yet to unfold. The Rook fights to right history’s wrongs while exploring his own fascinating historical roots and saving those he loves from the ravages of time.'' W. B. DuBay (Originating Series) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rook (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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