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''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!'' is a DC Comics comic book about a team of funny animal superheroes called the Zoo Crew. The characters first appeared in a special insert in ''The New Teen Titans'' #16 (February 1982), followed by a series published from 1982 to 1983. The Zoo Crew characters were created by Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw. Although the series, which was the last original funny animal property created by DC Comics, proved short-lived, it is still fondly remembered by many comic fans of its generation, and the characters appear occasionally in cameos in the mainstream DC Universe (this is made possible due to the existence of a "multiverse" in the DCU, which allows the Zoo Crew characters to exist on a parallel Earth). The series was introduced in a 16-page insert in ''The New Teen Titans'' #16. The series was cancelled after twenty issues, with six issues still in preparation. These six issues were eventually published in three double-sized issues as ''Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew in the Oz-Wonderland War Trilogy'', with the indicia title ''Oz-Wonderland Wars'' (plural). The series did not, in fact, depict a conflict between the Land of Oz and Wonderland, which plotter E. Nelson Bridwell considered antithetical to Ozite politics, but rather depicted the Nome King retrieving the magic belt and using his powers against both Oz and Wonderland, with the Zoo Crew coming in as reinforcements against him. The series was praised for its artwork, by Carol Lay, for its close emulation of the work of John R. Neill and Sir John Tenniel, but the story, scripted by Joey Cavalieri, was seen by many to be too close to the plot of ''Ozma of Oz'' to reach its full potential. The series featured cameos from Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and the Inferior Five. A ''Showcase Presents'' reprinting of the entire series was slated for September 2007, but was postponed along with several other ''Showcase'' editions due to royalty issues in DC's contracts of the 1980s. The book was finally released in September 2014.〔http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/showcase-presents-captain-carrot-and-his-amazing-zoo-crew〕 After years of absence, the Zoo Crew was reintroduced in ''Teen Titans'' in 2005. In October 2007 a three-issue series called "Captain Carrot and the Final Ark" featured the Zoo Crew picking up from the Teen Titans storyline. ==Location== The various members of the Zoo Crew lived on a parallel Earth that, during DC's pre-Crisis multiverse system, was named "Earth-C." Earth-C consisted of a world where various anthropomorphized talking animals existed; the series featured many animal-themed pun names for real-world aspects. For instance, the Zoo Crew operated out of "Follywood, Califurnia," a parody of Hollywood, California.〔''New Teen Titans'' #16, February 1982〕 Similarly named Earth-C cities include "Gnu York" (New York City),〔 "Tallahatchee" (Tallahassee, Florida),〔''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew'' #1, March 1982〕 and "Loondon" (London).〔''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew'' #6, August 1982〕 Countries on Earth-C include "Cornada" (Canada),〔''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew'' #3, May 1982〕 and the "United Species of America" (United States of America);〔 the capital of the United Species was "Waspington, DC" (Washington, DC).〔 The President of the United Species of America was "Mallard Fillmore" (a reference to the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore). Other famous figures of Earth-C included "Liz Whaler" (Elizabeth Taylor),〔 "Marlin Brando" (Marlon Brando),〔 and "Byrd Rentals" (Burt Reynolds)---the last of whom became a member of the Zoo Crew. Historical figures and events on Earth-C also parallel those of the real world, including the "Second Weird War" (World War II; Earth-C's version featured the U.S. and the Allies fighting the "Ratzis" (Nazis))〔''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew'' #5, July 1982〕 and President Abraham Linkidd (a goat, Earth-C's version of Abraham Lincoln), who was immortalized in the nation's capital in the "Linkidd Memorial".〔 Earth-C's population also consisted of the various "funny animal" characters that appeared in DC Comics over the years, particularly those in such Golden Age and Silver Age DC titles as ''Funny Stuff,'' ''The Dodo and the Frog'', ''Real Screen Comics,'' and so forth. Indeed, several characters from these series made cameos during the run of ''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew''. Eventually, readers (and the Zoo Crew) were introduced to the parallel Earth of "Earth-C-Minus," which turned out to be the home of "Just'a Lotta Animals" (a parody of the Justice League of America) and whose world was an all-animal reflection of the mainstream DC Universe. After the 1985 miniseries ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'', it was stated that Earth-C and Earth-C-Minus were actually "alternate dimensions" rather than parallel Earths, and thus were spared from the effects of ''Crisis''.〔 〕 More recently, the miniseries ''The Kingdom'' presented Earth-C as a Hypertime reality. In the series, ''Countdown'', the Monitors include one who has a neck and head that appears to resemble a giraffe's. There is an equivalent of Earth-C in the newly reestablished DC Multiverse, designated "Earth-26", with a history and population similar to that of the Pre-''Crisis'' Earth-C. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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