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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 13th May 1978
Frequency Every Monday
Cover Price 0.12 GBP
Pages 32
Editing Kelvin Gosnell; Steve MacManus (sub-editor)
Notes Each copy of the comic came with one of six free metallic badges designating a rank of Starlord Trooper. One could be a Laser Specialist, Pilot, Tank Commander or Time Warden, or assigned to the Mek War Controller Robot Regiment or Skateboard Strike Force.

Cover Details

Characters Johnny Alpha; Wulf Sternhammer
Genre Science-Fiction
Pencils Ramon Sola (painting)
Inks Ramon Sola (painting)
Colors Ramon Sola (painting)
Letters Typeset

6 page Planet Of The Damned story "Planet Of The Damned Part 1"

Characters Lew Kerr; Stan Hackmann; Bosun Flint; Captain Roker
Synopsis A transatlantic jet is sucked through a hole in the sky in the region of the Bermuda Triangle and crash lands on a hostile planet that isn't in Kansas. There they meet refugees from other vessels that have disappeared in the vicinity of Bermuda.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script R. E. Wright
Pencils Horacio Lalia
Inks Horacio Lalia
Letters Bill Nuttall
Notes R. E. Wright is an alias. The strip was conceived and thrashed out by Pat Mills for the launch of 2000AD 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.

6 page Timequake story

Characters James Blocker; Marcus Geladius; Harl Vinda; Suzi Cho; Quexalcholmec
Synopsis Jim Blocker is pulled out of time to the Cretacious era and told he is the dirsct cause of 20th century London being devastated by nuclear barrage.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script Jack Adrian
Pencils Ian Kennedy
Inks Ian Kennedy
Colors Ian Kennedy
Letters Peter Knight
Notes Only the first two story pages are in colour, painted by Kennedy, who produced the remainder in a grey wash.

2 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword

Script Kelvin Gosnell [as Starlord]
Pencils Ian Gibson
Inks Ian Gibson
Letters Typeset

5 page Strontium Dog story

Characters Johnny Alpha; Wulf Sternhammer
Synopsis In the 22nd century bountry hunting is left to universally despidred cadre of mutants known as Strontium Dogs after the radiation that deformed them. Foremost among them is the team of Johnny Alpha and Wulf Sternhammer armed with an array of fantstic weapons to help them.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script John Wagner [as T. B. Grover]
Pencils Carlos Ezquerra
Inks Carlos Ezquerra
Colors Carlos Ezquerra
Letters Jack Potter
Reprinted In Strontium Dog: Search/Destroy Agency Files (Rebellion, 2007 series) #1 (2007)

11 page Ro-Busters story "Day Of The Robot"

Characters "Flash" Harry Loweder; Hammerstein; Ro-Jaws; Mek-Quake; Howard Quartz; Angel; Chatterbox
Synopsis Billionaire Howard Quartz is creating a team of robots to respond to disasters humans can't cope with, and their first mission is underwater at the North Sea Tunnel.
Script Pat Mills
Pencils Carlos Pino
Inks Carlos Pino
Colors Carlos Pino
Letters Tom Frame
Notes Story pages 3, 4, and 11 are in colour, and Pino illustrates 5-10 in a grey wash. The Ro-Busters were actually designed by Kevin O'Neill, who never got to draw the strip in Starlord.
Reprinted In The Complete Ro-Busters (Rebellion, 2008 series) #[nn] (November 2008)