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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1963
Cover Price $0.50
Pages 34
Editing Buddy Saunders; Howard Keltner; Larry Herndon
Notes Amateur fanzine; "ditto" interior. Approx. 250 copies printed.

Cover Details - "STAR-STUDDED COMICS No.1"

Genre Super-hero
Script Howard Keltner
Pencils Howard Keltner
Inks Howard Keltner
Colors Howard Keltner
Letters Howard Keltner
Notes Amateur fanzine; "ditto" interior. Approx. 250 copies printed.
Reprinted in Best of Star-Studded Comics, The (Hamster Press, 2005 series) #nn

8 page The Defender text story "SLAVES OF THE BRAIN WAVE!"

Genre Super-hero
Script Larry Herndon
Pencils Richard "Grass" Green
Inks Richard "Grass" Green
Colors B&W
Letters Richard "Grass" Green
Notes 1st appearance. Next app. in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #2 (Texas Trio, December 1963).

6 page Doctor Weird story "INTRODUCING-- DOCTOR WEIRD"

Characters Dr. Rex Ward (Dr. Weird); Erla; Dr. Anton Reeves
Synopsis Dr. Rex Ward, a scientist from the year 2013, time-travels into the past. But on exiting his time-vehicle, he's killed by a pair of common burglars. En route to the great beyond, a mysterious voice tells him that because he died before he was born, he's become "a thing that cannot be"-- therefore, he's condemned to remain on Earth as a ghost until the time of his natural death. Taking the name Dr. Weird, he decides to "wage a never-ceasing war on the forces of evil".
Genre Occult; Super-hero
Script Howard Keltner
Pencils Howard Keltner
Inks Howard Keltner
Letters Howard Keltner
Notes 1st published Dr. Weird story. Dr. Weird created by Howard Keltner in 1941, as a tribute to Mister Justice (who was somewhat of a swipe of The Spectre). Origin story retold in FANTASTIC EXPLOITS #16 (Texas Trio, early 1970); that version reprinted in DR. WEIRD SPECIAL #1 (Caliber, February 1994). Next appearance in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #4 (Texas Trio, June 1964).

7 page The Astral Man text story "THE ASTRAL MAN"

Characters Creg Flanders, P.I. (The Astral Man / debut); Lynn Gregory (his secretary); Zoran (alien scientist)
Synopsis Zoran, an alien scientist, bestows on Creg Flanders the anti-gravity powers.
Genre Super-hero
Script Tommy Fisher
Pencils Tommy Fisher
Inks Tommy Fisher
Letters Tommy Fisher
Notes 1st appearance. The Astral Man created by Tommy Fisher (possibly as a Hal Jordan-Green Lantern tribute). Next appearance in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #4 (Texas Trio, June 1964).

8 page The Changeling story "FEARFULL WEAPON!"

Genre Super-hero
Script Buddy Saunders
Pencils Buddy Saunders
Inks Buddy Saunders
Colors B&W
Letters Buddy Saunders
Notes 1st appearance. Next app. in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #2 (Texas Trio, December 1963).