"Rocket launcher" seems like the wrong phrase to describe something that looks like a cannon. Rocket launchers are tubes with the back open because the rockets propel themselves through the air. The launcher itself doesn't propel them. Rockets just need a guide to get started off in the right direction.
Close. That /is/ Antman in the cannon, but it was technically a crossover in a Fantastic 4 comic: F4 #16, Jul. 1963, according to my note. As for context, I don't remember exactly what was going on but I had clipped three panels:
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logicbomb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
"Rocket launcher" seems like the wrong phrase to describe something that looks like a cannon. Rocket launchers are tubes with the back open because the rockets propel themselves through the air. The launcher itself doesn't propel them. Rockets just need a guide to get started off in the right direction.
espentan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
This is a high powered miniature rocket launcher, they differ from your average rocket launcher in that they resemble canons. /s
Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
I know the name of the group is “out of context comics”, but I’d love to know what comic this came from.
ninja@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Korval@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1y
Close. That /is/ Antman in the cannon, but it was technically a crossover in a Fantastic 4 comic: F4 #16, Jul. 1963, according to my note. As for context, I don't remember exactly what was going on but I had clipped three panels: