Rocket Racer

The Rocket Racer is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Robert Farrell was a male human born in Brooklyn as the eldest of seven children with his parents relocating to Harlem. When his father left the family, Bob helped to support his family. Bob worked while in high school, but still excelled in his science classes. To get a higher education he joined the Air Force, but when his mother became sick and was unable to support the family or pay her medical bills, Bob made the decision to turn to crime. Bob got the raw materials for his inventions from a junk yard near his neighborhood. (Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #104)

Bob spent months working on his board, until it became like an extension of himself, and developed other devices before going public. After stealing a briefcase full of bonds and securities from a courier on Wall Street, Bob tried to escape, but was captured by Spider-Man, who left him webbed up on the hood of a police car. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #172) After getting out of jail, Bob had the Tinkerer upgrade his board's micro-rockets and redesign his gyro-skates, greatly increasing his performance. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #182) The Tinkerer's deal with the Racer was that the Tinkerer would get 25% of the take from crimes. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #183) Jackson Weele offered to pay the Rocket Racer ten thousand dollars in cash if he retrieved a briefcase full of evidence that proved Weele was guilty of embezzling. Having stolen the briefcase, the Rocket Racer encountered Spider-Man again, though he escaped the hero this time. Racer took the case to Weele, but kept the most damning evidence and refused to give it over unless Weele paid twenty thousand. Out of costume, Bob visited his mother in the hospital, unaware that he was near Peter Parker who was visiting his own aunt. After escaping some police officers, Racer again attracted the notice of Spider-Man. They fought until the Racer escaped by hiding in a smokestack. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #182) At the hospital where his mother was sharing a room with May Parker, Bob assured his mother that their need for money to pay bills outweighed the risk he may go back to jail. The arrival of Peter Parker led to a fight that continued outside the hospital, where Weele, now as the Big Wheel and using technology from the Tinkerer, attacked the Racer. The fight ended when the Big Wheel careened into the Hudson River and Spider-Man attempted to save him, allowing the Racer time to escape. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #183)

Notes

• The Rocket Racer was created by Len Wein and Ross Andru where he made his first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #172 (September, 1977).

Appearances

• Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1977)

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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