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Elon Cody Starbuck is a fictional space pirate created by Howard Chaykin, who first appeared in Star Reach magazine issue #1, and also appeared in various issues of the graphics magazine Heavy Metal.
Starbuck is the earliest example of a character that later became characteristic of Chaykin's work: a swashbuckling, morally ambivalent, free-wheeling good/bad guy in a decadent, sexually explicit universe, who looks more than a little bit like Chaykin himself.
Starbuck is the darkest of these characters; in early stories he is gleefully venal and treacherous, generally doing good only if the price is right. He can be seen as a more amoral version of Ironwolf, a character previously drawn and plotted by Chaykin for Weird Worlds in 1973. He also resembles Dominic Fortune, created by Chaykin in 1975 for Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Cody Starbuck first appeared in Star Reach #1. The story was 16 pages, black and white. A planetary lord hired Starbuck to rescue his bride, who had been kidnapped for ransom by a monk of the Sanctuary of St.Berryl, a former leper colony.
- Star*Reach #1
- Star*Reach #4: The Return of Cody Starbuck (1976)
- Cody Starbuck one-shot, published by Star*Reach, 1978
- Portfolio of four full-colour prints, published by S.Q. Productions, 1980
- Heavy Metal Vol. 5 No. 2, May 1981, p.48-59 and back cover
- Heavy Metal Vol. 5 No. 3, June 1981, p.82-89
- Heavy Metal Vol. 5 No. 4, July 1981, p.82-89
- Heavy Metal Vol. 5 No. 5, August 1981, p.82-89
- Heavy Metal Vol. 5 No. 6, September 1981, p.34–43
External links
Reference
- Forgotten Comics: Howard Chaykin’s Cody Starbuck.
- John Clute and John Grant: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
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