The Rook (comics)

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The Rook
The Rook. Dark Horse Comics cover art by Paul Gulacy; new stories by Steven Grant.
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
First appearance	Eerie #82 (March 1977)
Created by	Bill DuBay
In-story information
Alter ego	Restin Dane
Team affiliations	The Time Force, The Infinity Force, Danse Macabre
Abilities	Time travel

The Rook is a fictional, time-traveling comic book adventure hero. He first appeared in March 1977 in American company Warren Publishing's Eerie, Vampirella & Warren Presents magazines. In the 1980s, the Rook 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 miniseries. In 2014, The Rook was re-introduced in Dark Horse Comics’ Eerie Archives 17. The Rook returned 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, and was influenced by pulp magazines’ heroic characters like Doc Savage.^[1]