Star Studded Comics

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Star Studded Comics is the name of three comics series.

The first, published in 1945, was published by Cambridge House Publishers, and featured Captain Combat, Comandette, Red Rogue, Ghost Woman (the inspiration for the later Dark Horse Comics character, The Ghost^{[citation needed]}), and several other characters.

In 1946, a comic of the same name was published in Canada by Superior Publishers Limited. Whether this was a reprint of Cambridge House's or not is uncertain. ^[1]

The second, Star-Studded Comics, was a fanzine that ran 18 issues, from September 1963 - Summer 1972. Published in the U.S. by the Texas Trio (Larry Herndon, Buddy Saunders and Howard Keltner)), ^[2] it featured early work by George R. R. Martin ^[3] , Grass Green, Jim Starlin, Roy Thomas, Sam Grainger, Alan Weiss, Dave Cockrum, Mike Vosburg, Biljo White and Howard Keltner, ^[4] among others, and featured the early appearances of Dr. Weird, Xal-Kor, Wildman and The Eye. ^[5] Buddy Saunders' cover for its 2nd issue won an Alley Award in the amateur division in 1963.

The third Star Studded Comics is among the metafictional comics that tell the stories of the Big Bang Universe characters. As they featured Dr. Weird, however, this fictitious title is a clear homage to the 1960s fanzine rather than an independent metafictional title.