The Complete Starlord Volume 1

The Archival Collection
Keep Watching the Stars!

In 1978, 2000 AD launched a weekly sister comic aimed at an older audience and boasting higher production values its name was Starlord.

A plethora of the best comics writers and artists in the UK ensured the new series was a success. These included 2000 ADs creator, Pat Mills; co-creators of Judge Dredd, John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra; future Watchmen artist, Dave Gibbons; legendary 2000 AD and Batman writer, Alan Grant; and The Ballad of Halo Jones co-creator, Ian Gibson.

Despite outselling 2000 AD, it was merged into the galaxys greatest comic after just 22 issues. Against the policy of the time, 2000 AD was the title that was kept. But the legacy of Starlord lives on with its standout strips Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters (a fore-runner of A.B.C Warriors) occupying