{"id":5354,"date":"2010-11-21T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:05:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:05:27","slug":"flashback-friday-back-in-time-with-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/flashback-friday-back-in-time-with-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday: Back in time with Rip Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n


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Within a year or so of Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown getting their own title in 1958, DC Comics introduced several new teams of non-super-powered adventurers: Cave Carson, Rip Hunter, and the Sea Devils. The latter two got their own titles in the early ’60s, though neither of them matched the Challengers’ success.<\/p>\n

Rip Hunter, Time Master<\/a><\/i><\/b> was published bimonthly from 1961 to 1965, running a total of 29 issues. The series was a relatively consistent seller (click to see the circulation reports<\/a>), but never managed to achieve the same levels of sales success as its predecessor.<\/p>\n

Still, in a comic-book universe, a man with a time machine is simply too useful to abandon, and Rip Hunter has since appeared in a multitude of DC titles, including Challengers of the Unknown<\/i><\/b>, Action Comics<\/i><\/b>, and Crisis on Infinite Earths<\/i><\/b>, as well as many other post-Crisis<\/i> stories hinging on time travel. Rip even starred in his own eight-issue mini-series, Time Masters<\/i><\/b>, in 1990 and is currently searching the timestream for Bruce Wayne in the six-issue Time Masters: Vanishing Point<\/i><\/b> mini-series.<\/p>\n

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by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt Within a year or so of Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown getting their own title in 1958, DC Comics introduced several new teams of non-super-powered adventurers: Cave Carson, Rip Hunter, and the Sea Devils. The latter two got their own titles in the early ’60s, though neither … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,95,42],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dc-comics","tag-flashback-friday","tag-title-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5356,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions\/5356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}