Star Slammers
Star Slammers was an American comic book series written and drawn by Walt Simonson.
The series began as Simonson's thesis project while at Rhode Island School of Design, from which he graduated in 1972. Simonson took two years to write, pencil, letter and ink the first Star Slammers publication, a 50-page black and white book published a sort of ashcan promotional comic for the 1974 World Science Fiction Convention in Washington, D.C. (DisCon II).[1]
The first Star Slammers title was published by Marvel Comics as Marvel Graphic Novel No. 6 in 1983, and later in 1995 a new five-issue limited series by Malibu Comics' Bravura imprint, though only 4 issues out of five were published. Dark Horse Comics published the final issue as a one-shot special in 1996. Dark Horse also published an 8-page Star Slammers story titled "Fever Dream" in Dark Horse Presents #114 (1996) that is a prelude to the 1994 Malibu series.[1]
In 2014 IDW Publishing republished the Marvel and Malibu material in an eight-issue reprint miniseries.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McKenzie, Marc (August 16, 2000). "WALT SIMONSON". The Slush Factory: The World’s Coolest Comics Magazine.