On-sale date from copyright registration.
Star Raiders is trademarked to Atari Inc., and is a follow-up to The Atari Force. This material was originally intended for video game inserts, similar to the Atari Force inserts. When the video game market crashed in 1983 it was converted into this graphic novel.
This issue is a variant of
DC Graphic Novel (DC, 1983 series) #1 - Star Raiders.