Rip Hunter
Rip Hunter, Time Master (English Rip Hunter, Commander of the times, namely: Rip Hunter, slayer of time and space ) is the title of a series of comic publications are issued by the U.S. publisher DC Comics since 1959.
The stories about Rip Hunter, attributable to the science-fiction and adventure genre, going back to the author Jack Miller and artist Ruben Moreira, who developed the character and her adventures underlying plot premise and shaped the early comics of the series.
Publication data
The first " Rip Hunter " stories brought DC Comics in 1959 within the output to changing content assembled from issue anthology series Showcase on the market. The first rip -Hunter story - from the pen of the author Jack Miller and his illustrator Ruben Moreira - appeared in issue # 20 of the series, which appeared in May-June 1959. After this issue and some more filled with " Rip Hunter " stories expenditure for the following year had sold themselves satisfactorily, DC in 1961 began with the publication of an independent Rip - Hunter series, entitled Rip Hunter. Timemaster received and their first issue in March-April was published in 1961.
The series was published henceforth in zweimonatlichem rhythm and ran until November-December 1965, when it was discontinued with issue # 29 due to dwindling sales. Besides Miller and Moreira among others, the artist Bill Ely worked on the series.
In the early 1980s, followed by further Rip Hunter stories that DC as a so-called " back-up feature ," published in the back of the books of this series DC Comics Presents, whose main stories were the adventures of heroes Superman. Between 1987 and 1989 some concepts from the " Rip Hunter " stories played a major role in the serene time travel series Booster Gold by Dan Jurgens.
1990 saw an eight-part mini- series entitled Time Masters of the authors Bob Wayne and Lewis Shiner, the Rip Hunter's backstory in-depth and modernized. Since then, the character of Rip Hunter and the twining itself around his person concepts have been used mainly as a minor character and instrumental set pieces in other series such as Superman, JSA or the mini-series Zero Hour and The Kingdom. Currently occurs Rip Hunter as a regular supporting character in the new, second Booster Gold series on.
Action
Rip Hunter describes the adventures of a eponymous scientist and adventurer who travels by means of a technical device manufactured by himself, the so-called " time ball " ( " Time Sphere " ), through time and space to explore the past and the future. Is accompanied on these trips to the Hunter in his early adventures in the 1950s and 1960s by his assistant Jeff Smith, his girlfriend Bonnie Baxter and her little brother Corky, he must usually against all sorts of " commercial" challenges from the dangers repertoire of the science fiction genre resist - so on dinosaurs, aliens, monsters and talking monkeys.
The modern Rip -Hunter stories from 1990 describe his fight against the mysterious Illuminati, during his guest appearances on series such as Superman or JSA from his membership in the Linear Men, a kind of police force to protect the time stream act. The Linear Men equip Ryder - who has since turned gray - even with an optical implant from which his right eye and part of his visual field covered. In the mini-series The Kingdom Hunter Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman helps in the fight against the times and dimensions by traveling arch-villain Gog and quarreled about the fact that he is so contrary to the brazen principles of the Linear Men in the integrity of the time flow - the linear Men untouchable View and preserve its unspoiled state they have sworn - injured. In the Superman saga Our World 's At War Hunter and the rest of the Linear Men are killed, this survive, paradoxically, however, as their " essence" survived what they put in a position to be able to form new material bodies from non- matter on telepsychoplastischem ways. Later, the essence of Linear Men, however, dispelled by the divine essence of the essence, so that they die. In place of the "old Hunters", which comes from the "old universe " and now - after he was one of only a handful of characters the end of his actual universe [Pre Crisis DC Universe ] in the epic storyline "Crisis on Infinite Earths " had survived from 1986 to miraculously survived up to the DC Comics stories of 2005 - after a long " died late " but enters another Hunter in his place: his counterpart ( Rip Hunter II ) from the new, caused by the 1986 "Crisis " storyline to life, the universe ( post Crisis DC universe ), which is now delayed his role as " Rip Hunter of the new universe " picks up, which had previously been occupied by the remaining "old Hunter".
In the second " Booster Gold " series, running since 2007, supported Hunter - the now young and " immaculate " and no longer haired and with cybernetic prostheses - who now lives in a bunker complex below Arizona, in which he sorts time travel trophies and memorabilia amassed, the title character of the series and his robot friend Skeets, by granting them advice and endows them with technological assistance.
In the series Infinite Crisis and 52 Hunter plays a major role by the "true nature" of the universe as a separate by different energetic vibrations succession of "parallel Earth", which together form the so-called hyper- Time, revealing and as crucial to the victory of heroes of the series ( Superman, etc.) contributes, revealing the existence of the multiverse.