Rocket Red Brigade
| Rocket Red Brigade | |
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Rocket Red Brigade, artist Ivan Reis
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Green Lantern Corps #208, (January 1987) |
| Created by |
Steve Englehart writer Joe Staton artist |
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| Base(s) | Russian Federation |
| Member(s) | Assorted Rocket Reds Rocket Red #1 Rocket Red #4 Rocket Red #7 |
The Rocket Red Brigade is a DC Comics superhero team. They first appeared in Green Lantern Corps #208 (January 1987), and were created by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton. The name is likely a play on the term "Red Brigade" and the phrase "the rockets' red glare" from The Star-Spangled Banner.
Originally created for the Soviet Union by Green Lantern Kilowog, the Rocket Red Brigade — normal human beings enhanced using "forced evolution" and armoured battle-suits — proudly defended the USSR.
Their abilities included super strength, invulnerability, flight (through rocket packs/boots), the ability to project powerful energy blasts and "mecha-empathy" — the ability to sense and control computers and machines (though to what extent is not clear).
Decorated Russian soldier Josef Denisovich was a close friend of the alien Green Lantern Kilowog. He was also the first member of the Rocket Red Brigade. Josef was turned against Kilowog by the Soviet government, and died fighting Kilowog.
The man known as Vladimir Mikoyan turned out to be a Manhunter. Vladmir was the first Rocket Red admitted into Justice League International. During the Millennium event, he was exposed as a Manhunter android and destroyed by Booster Gold (with the assistance of the Justice League and a force of other, human, Rocket Reds).
After the Manhunter was discovered, Dimitri Pushkin was admitted into the Justice League.
While serving as a member of the Red Shadows, Mikhail Denisovitch Arkadin, the Russian hero also known as Pozhar, wore a modified suit of Rocket Red armor.
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