Starlord
#May 20th 1978 (2)
(May 20th 1978)
- Price
- 0.12 GBP
- Pages
- 32
- Indicia Frequency
- Every Monday
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IPC Magazines Ltd.
- Editing
- Kelvin Gosnell; Steve MacManus (sub-editor)
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Mind Wars / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...Another Jugla fleet smashed
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Doctor Varn; Cosmol Na-Rutha; Ardeni; Arlen
- Synopsis
- With the galaxy at war in 3000AD, twins Arlen and Ardeni discover they have prodigious psychic abilities.
- Reprints
The Droon Have Wiped Out The Future
Time Quake / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jim Blocker; Marcus Geladius; Harl Vinda; Suzi Cho; Quexalcholmec
- Synopsis
- Blocker escapes the tyrannosaurus, but starts the great fire of London.
Indexer Notes
The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue. Only the first two pages of the strip are in colour. The remainder are in a grey wash.
Hail, Star-Troopers
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Script
- Kelvin Gosnell (as Starlord)
- Letters
- typeset
Get Lost, Or That Woman And Kid Get Smoked
Strontium Dog / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- John Wagner (as T. B. Grover)
- Pencils
- Carlos Ezquerra
- Inks
- Carlos Ezquerra
- Colors
- Carlos Ezquerra
- Letters
- Jack Potter
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Johnny Alpha; Wulf Sternhammer; Max Quirxx
- Synopsis
- Max Quirxx gets what's coming to him.
- Reprints
-
in Cimoc (Antonio San Román/Riego Ediciones, 1979 series) #1 (1979) -
in Strontium Dog Search/Destroy Agency Files (Rebellion, 2006 series) #1 (December 2006) - in Perro de Estroncio (Dolmen Editorial, 2023 series) #1 (Octubre 2023)
-
Indexer Notes
The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue. Only the first two pages of the strip are in colour. The remainder are in black, white and grey.
It's Raining Acid
Planet of the Damned / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jake Flint; Stan Hackmann; Lew Kerr; Helen; Captain Roker
- Synopsis
- Flint is trying to lead the passengers from the crashed plane to safety, but they won't do as he says.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue. R. E. Wright is an alias. The strip was conceived and thrashed out by Pat Mills for the launch of 2000 AD a year previously, but discarded. When IPC switched the frequency of Starlord from monthly to weekly just prior to launch new strips were needed and Planet of the Damned was pulled from the files. Editor Kelvin Gosnell re-jigged the strip, and assorted others scripted issues.
The Preying Mantis
Ro-Busters / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Howard Quartz; Hammerstein; Ro-Jaws; General Denver; Mek Quake
- Synopsis
- Hammerstein is telling war stories as the Pentagon need help.
- Reprints
- in 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special (IPC, 1978 series) #1985 (1985)
- in The Complete Ro-Busters (Rebellion, 2008 series) (November 2008)
- in Ro-Busters: The Disaster Squad of Distinction! (Rebellion, 2014 series) (April 2014)
- in Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts (Rebellion, 2015 series) #1 (October 2015)
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Indexer Notes
Only the final page of the strip is in colour. The remainder are in a grey wash.
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
["...Another Jugla fleet smashed"]
Mind Wars -
2.
The Droon Have Wiped Out The Future
Time Quake -
3.
Hail, Star-Troopers
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4.
Get Lost, Or That Woman And Kid Get Smoked
Strontium Dog -
5.
It's Raining Acid
Planet of the Damned -
6.
The Preying Mantis
Ro-Busters
- Doug Brain
- Adei G.
- Katy Hayhurst
- Gordon Keys
- Mike Nielsen
- Frank Plowright
- Karsten S.
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
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