Starman #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeStarman #10 marks the moment Nash fully transforms from a reluctant villain's daughter into the second Mist — breaking out of prison, replicating her father's gaseous-form experiment, and dedicating herself to destroying Jack Knight — setting the engine of the series' most consequential ongoing threat in motion. Simultaneously, the issue introduces the childlike, gentle incarnation of Solomon Grundy that Robinson would develop across dozens of subsequent issues, turning a blunt Golden Age bruiser into one of the run's most emotionally resonant supporting characters. Together, these two story threads — one a villain gaining power, one a monster gaining innocence — exemplify exactly why the Robinson/Harris Starman is remembered as one of the 1990s' most character-rich superhero series. The issue also features an early Jack-and-Shade conversation that deepens the moral ambiguity at the heart of the book, illustrating the series' consistent preference for dialogue and relationship-building over action choreography.
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Starman #10 was written by James Robinson with pencils by Tony Harris, inks by Wade Von Grawbadger, colors by Gregory Wright, and lettering by Gaspar Saladino, under editor Archie Goodwin. It carried a cover date of August 1995 and was published on-sale June 20, 1995, placing it roughly ten months into the ongoing series that Robinson and Harris had launched through DC's Zero Hour event in late 1994. The issue falls within the creative window where Harris, by critical consensus, was rapidly maturing his photorealistic style, transitioning the book's visual identity toward the distinctive look that would define the series through its first 45 issues.
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- Published June 20, 1995 (cover-dated August 1995); story title is 'The Day Before the Day to Come.'
- Creative team: writer James Robinson, penciler Tony Harris, inker Wade Von Grawbadger, colorist Gregory Wright, letterer Gaspar Saladino, editor Archie Goodwin.
- Nash — who first appeared as a character in Starman #0 (October 1994) — acquires her father's mist-based density powers in this issue by replicating his experiment after escaping prison, formally becoming the second Mist and Jack Knight's primary nemesis for the rest of the series.
- First substantive appearance of Solomon Grundy in Opal City: Jack discovers him lurking in the city's sewers, the two fight, and after Grundy weeps at being hurt, Jack befriends him and brings him to safety — the start of the 'gentle Solly' characterization Robinson would carry through multiple story arcs.
- Clarence O'Dare receives his introduction in this issue, according to the Grand Comics Database character index, expanding the O'Dare family of Opal City police officers who serve as key supporting cast throughout the run.
- The Shade appears in a candid conversation with Jack, foreshadowing larger threats to come — consistent with the series' recurring use of the Shade as an ambiguous mentor figure.
- The issue was reprinted in the trade paperback Starman: Night and Day (April 1997, collecting issues #7–10 and #12–16) and in both the 2008 and 2012 editions of The Starman Omnibus Vol. 1.
- Solomon Grundy's arc begun here — befriending Mikaal Tomas and eventually sacrificing himself to save Jack — is cited in multiple DC reference sources as one of the character's most emotionally significant appearances in any medium.
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Reprinted in Starman #2 (1997), The Starman Omnibus #1 (2008), The Starman Omnibus #1 (2012)
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