Showing posts with label StarStream. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Reading Room STARSTREAM "City"

Here's a tangled tale of time travel...
...based on the prose short story "A Nice Place to Visit" by Stephen Goldin.
Adapted by Silver Age comics veteran Arnold Drake and illustrated by Jose Delbo, this story was part of the 1976 anthology mini-series Starstream, Western Publishing's move away from the Gold Key imprint and branding to create a less-juvenile presence in newsstands, supermarket magazine racks, and bookstores.
Note: there were less than a dozen dedicated comic book shops in America in 1976!
The 64-page anthologies featured comic adaptations of short stories by noted (and marketable) authors like Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, Theodore Sturgeon, A E van Vogt, and Anne McCaffrey, with a couple of non-adaptation stories by Arnold Drake and series editor Roger Elwood to fill out the page count.
Sadly, the project, which came out a year before Star Wars was released, disappeared within six months.
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OOP 1979 Trade Paperback Reprinting Most (but not all) of the Material from the Starstream Mini-Series
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