Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
| The Zoo Crew | |
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Cover of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #1 (March 1982), depicting the team's founding members plus Superman. Art by Scott Shaw!, Bob Smith, and Ross Andru
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | New Teen Titans #16, February 1982 |
| Created by |
Roy Thomas Scott Shaw! |
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| Base(s) | Follywood, Califurnia (Earth-C's version of Hollywood, California) |
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Captain Carrot Pig-Iron Yankee Poodle Alley-Kat-Abra Fastback Rubberduck Little Cheese American Eagle |
Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! is a DC Comics comic book about a team of funny animal superheroes called the Zoo Crew. The characters first appeared in a special insert in The New Teen Titans #16 (February 1982), followed by a series published from 1982 to 1983. The Zoo Crew characters were created by Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw. Although the series, which was the last original funny animal property created by DC Comics, proved short-lived, it is still fondly remembered by many comic fans of its generation, and the characters appear occasionally in cameos in the mainstream DC Universe (this is made possible due to the existence of a "multiverse" in the DCU, which allows the Zoo Crew characters to exist on a parallel Earth).
The series was introduced in a 16-page insert in The New Teen Titans #16. The series was cancelled after twenty issues, with six issues still in preparation. These six issues were eventually published in three double-sized issues as Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew in the Oz-Wonderland War Trilogy, with the indicia title Oz-Wonderland Wars (plural). The series did not, in fact, depict a conflict between the Land of Oz and Wonderland, which plotter E. Nelson Bridwell considered antithetical to Ozite politics, but rather depicted the Nome King retrieving the magic belt and using his powers against both Oz and Wonderland, with the Zoo Crew coming in as reinforcements against him. The series was praised for its artwork, by Carol Lay, for its close emulation of the work of John R. Neill and Sir John Tenniel, but the story, scripted by Joey Cavalieri, was seen by many to be too close to the plot of Ozma of Oz to reach its full potential. The series featured cameos from Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and the Inferior Five.
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