Cosmic Greetings!
Back in March I celebrated both the anniversary of my guild the D'ast Raccoonatics and the birthday of my friend (and Raccoonatic Captain) DarkBeast. Today, I am doing another (admittedly much smaller) giveaway for another very important observance.
June of 1976 saw the release of one Marvel Preview #7. The publication included the second part of an Odyssey-In-Space type story called Sword in the Stars. That story, in general, would not go on to have significance in Marvel's overall canon, but it was in that second part of Sword in the Stars, written by Bill Mantlo, a certain character was introduced...
Rocket Raccoon!
While some consider the later Hulk 271 his first true appearance, even a quasi-debut is worth celebrating it's 40th year. As Marvel Preview was a monthly publication, pinning down a specific date is a difficult thing to do. So, I decided during the fandom restructuring I did last summer, that the day right in the middle, June 15th, would be a holiday to celebrate Rocket Raccoon and his fandom, Rocket Raccoon Day (as mentioned in the other giveaway, replacing the previous Raccoonatics' Day).
This June15th, during his 40th Anniversary, will be the first observance of Rocket Raccoon Day. I am doing something outside this game to celebrate (and some of you will hear from me or a friend regarding this on social media) but I thought I should do something for the community of Marvel Heroes, the game that truly introduced me to Rocket.
So, on June 15th, I will gift one randomly chosen winner Rocket Raccoon. (I know, it's not much, especially when we have free hero tickets this month, but I had to do something for the day)
If you are interested, just post in the topic and say you want to enter, or whatever you want to say. Good luck, all.
Update: Realized I had not specified an exact time the contest will close, so I will say I will close new entries at noon EDT on Wednesday, June 15th. I will then randomly choose and notify the winner shortly after that.