Im currantly trying to collect a complete run of STARBLAZER magazine, i was wondering if anyone can give me any details about said title????
Superherostore.com was posting t'other day that he's got a half-price sale on them.
Go to any of his posts and you'll get the link.
- Trout
im still looking for an issue by issue artist creator rundown,
there was one in an early issue of COMIC WORLD from 1992 sometime (anybody got any copies of these, i used to love them - major interviews with only uk creators and stuff great)
dont know of any other sources and no one could help last time i asked
what do u want to know
That's superherostore.co.uk not .com
Some of the later issues had the complete rundown of the Starblazer creators. Unfortunately, I don't have those issues left.
Link: Superhero Store Sale
i have the last issue, it doesnt give a full rundown - it just sorta has this brief over view
and it doesnt tell ya which issues the creators were in - u just have to ... well kinda guess :-(
Do you mean the small format DC Thompson publication from yesteryear? I found the first 15 issues here a while back during a clearout starting at Number 1, I'd forgotten I had them.
Ed
Is it hust me or are they absolutely great. A forgotten jem from a by-gone age, i also new they half existed until a couple of months ago. Now im slowly putting a collection together. I am right in thinking there was only 281 issues???
only???
yes there are 281 issues, then towards the end they seem to have run out of artists more than anything with some of the later being very cobbled together (although the scripting is excellent and several characters become regulars)
I didn't know there was so many :-0, I must have stopped after the first dozen or so.
Ed
i have never liked future shocks but here each story is a bit like a long drawn future shock early on in the run
they develop in to standalone black and white 68 page epics that would make good graphic novels
excellent
Yeah, i love the space soap opera feel to all the stories, a jem of a D. C. THOMSON title.
Are they worth much?
:-p
Ed
many of the creators are actually future shock regulars too, there are 5 issues written by alan moore i think 105 is one of them
the mikal r kayn stories are scrpted by alan grant and the first story was by alcatena (alcatens first uk work was in starblazer before toxic and then breaking into the usa)
theres lots of little gems in there
i beenpaying about ?3 each for the later issues which are the harder to find, the earlier are quite common and go for ?1 to ?3
(but it always comes down to value doesnt it)
i have a feeling that somebody did a number on me though slightly as they were listing them in batches of 4 where i didnt need them all, now that im selling my doubles - the same people i bought mine of are selling their copies at 50p each (so i think there are lots of the early issues)
pardon my ignorance, but what is/was Starblazer?
I had a load at one time (well, about 30 or 40 and gave them to the charity shop). Have picked up a few since, but generally read them and pass them on. They are entertaining to varying degrees, but they don't usuaully tell much of a story in their pages. I like the DC Thompson format though. I'd be interested in knowing which ones were Alan Moore ones. At one point I had a few of the Grant Morrison ones, but to be honest I had to be told they were by him, they are all a bit homogenous.
remember the dandy/beano and commando comic libraries
well starblazer was in this format but with sci fi stories
really good too, one of my faves - it ran until 1995 at a rate of two a month then commando went down to two a month and started and started reprinting, i think the lack of published issues meant they cancelled starblazer (rather than reprint)
alien battleship and halleys comet (with a guy running away from a comet, close up on his face)
I'd love to see DCT reprint their old material in that format.
I've been discussing the possibility of DCT bringing out a webcomic of their material. They've given me permission to develop a prototype so here's hoping (obviously a printed comic would be better but if that's not going to happen...).
Chris
www.starscapecomic.co.uk
I may consider selling or trading mine if I can find where they are again.
JAWS items most welcome :-)
Ed
soory didnt finish my last post, the two stories mentioned contain work scripted by alan moore
What i also love about them are the complete story in one sitting, i've found a couple of issues in the evening just before bed really does the trick.
Hi again.
Does anyone know the exact issue of Comic World the feature was in. Any help will be gratefully received.
i cant remember sorry, but every issue had an british artist or writer interview and in their synopsis it tells u what issues they did of the great and mighty starblazer
(so look for alan amoore issue, steve bissette, alan grant and p[ossibly the judge dredd or 2000ad issues as a lot of the creators were the same)
Ive just remembered something, in the later issues of Starblazer there appeared a character callled Starhawk, now didnt he also appear in a another D. C. Thomson comic around about 1983 called Spike. But which came first???
starhawk in starblazer was a revamp of the earlier 'planet tamer' character introduced in issue 40
planet tamer was one of the only earlier charcters to enjoy 3 adventures
starhawk had 5 i think
what year was spike published???
hang on - spike u say
i think i have some of them to hand...
its the same character and creative team, i will just check the starblazers
its the same character and creative team rom planet tamer in spike circa 1983,
the starblazer starhawk is from 1987 and has a new creative team
sorry double posted there a few times but hope that helps
other characters with more than 1 appearance (besides mikal r kayn, who becomes semi regular) are robot kid (2), grok and zero (5), skaar (2), mandroid with lots of appearances later on and a sword and sorcery trilogy
Spike first issue was dated 22/01/83 and as far as i know lasted about 67 issues, i never got many of these as with most d. c. t. titles it was badly distributed. Would love to read it again though.
arrisarris u got mail
Starhawk appeared in The Crunch (which also had the very impressive Arena) and, when they merged, the Victor.
I have some Spikes I'd be happy to trade (see my wants list in classifieds) featuting this chap.
i dont know if your still looking for starblazers,but ive got 150 from another collection,let me know.
...i was lucky enough to complete my collection about a year ago, and very impressive it looks all in arow on my book shelf, just gotta find time now to finish reading them all...
Some info here:
http://www.britishcomics.20m.com/starpics.htm