Starslayer

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caption = Cover to "Starslayer" #1 (Feb 1982). Art by Mike Grell
schedule = Monthly
format = Standard
publisher = Pacific Comics
First Comics
date = February 1982 - November 1985
issues = 34
main_char_team = Torin MacQuillon
writers = Mike Grell
John Ostrander
artists = Mike Grell
pencillers = Lenin Delsol
inkers = Mike Gustovich
colorists = Steve Oliff
Janice Cohen
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creators = Mike Grell

"Starslayer" was an American comic book series created by Mike Grell.

Publication history

Grell originally created "Starslayer" for DC Comics, but plans to publish it were halted after the mass cancellation of titles known as the DC Implosion. Instead, he offered it to Pacific Comics, who released it as a six issued limited series in 1982. [cite book
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accessdate =2007-12-07] and was replaced by writer John Ostrander and artist Lenin Delsol. Later contributors to the series were Tim Truman, Hilary Barta, and Tom Sutton. The final issue, #34, came out November 1985.

In issue #10, the character GrimJack was introduced as a backup feature; he would later receive his own title. Another character that appeared as backup feature was Groo the Wanderer, who also later received his own title at Pacific.

In 1995 Grell released an expanded version of the original limited series through Acclaim Comics. The expanded version, titled "Starslayer: The Director's Cut", ran for eight issues. [cite web
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eries overview

The first six issue limited series introduces the main character Torin MacQuillon, a Celtic warrior from the time of the Roman Empire. Just before he is killed while fighting a group of Roman soldiers, he is pulled into the distant future by Tamara, a descendant of his wife after she remarried. Torin is asked to join the crew of the spaceship "Jolly Roger" in their fight against the oppressive regime that is ruling the Earth. Torin agrees, and he and his his new shipmates successfully save the Earth's dying sun by the end of the first series.

When First Comics restarted the series, Torin and his crewmates travel throughout the galaxy and end up in Cynosure, the nexus of all realities for First Comics, and gain a crew of pirates. At some point Torin travels back to the solar system with a device that can cause a star to implode into a black hole. He uses this weapon on the sun in the course of battle to destroy his enemies. Just at the point of implosion Torin speaks the name of the Celtic goddess of death, Morrigan, effectively sacrificing the star to her, which brings her back into existence. She proclaims Torin to be her avatar and orders him to go into the galaxy and kill in her name. Torin rebels, which is the basis of the remainder of the title's run.

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External links

* [http://www.toonopedia.com/starslay.htm Toonopedia entry]
* [http://www.comics.org/search.lasso?type=title&query=starslayer&sort=alpha Starslayer at the Grand Comics Database]