Cody Starbuck

Few characters capture the freewheeling spirit of Bronze Age independent comics quite like Cody Starbuck, a swaggering space adventurer who burst onto the scene in Star\Reach #1 in 1974 — one of the earliest and most celebrated titles of the underground/independent comics movement. Created by the visionary Jim Starlin at the height of his cosmic storytelling powers, Starbuck carried the DNA of pulp sci-fi bravado into pages that answered to no Comics Code and no corporate editorial board. His adventures migrated through Heavy Metal Magazine and his own self-titled series, making him a genuine artifact of that restless, exploratory era when creators were seizing ownership of their own visions. Rare in the catalog and steeped in countercultural comics history, Cody Starbuck is essential reading for any collector who wants to understand how Bronze Age creators pushed beyond the Big Two and into the stars.