Issue | #1 |
Published | September 1963 |
Cover Price | $0.50 |
Pages | 34 |
Editing | Buddy Saunders; Howard Keltner; Larry Herndon |
Notes | Amateur fanzine; "ditto" interior. Approx. 250 copies printed. |
Genre | Super-hero |
Script | Howard Keltner |
Pencils | Howard Keltner |
Inks | Howard Keltner |
Colors | Howard Keltner |
Letters | Howard Keltner |
Notes | Amateur fanzine; "ditto" interior. Approx. 250 copies printed. |
Reprinted | in Best of Star-Studded Comics, The (Hamster Press, 2005 series) #nn |
Genre | Super-hero |
Script | Larry Herndon |
Pencils | Richard "Grass" Green |
Inks | Richard "Grass" Green |
Colors | B&W |
Letters | Richard "Grass" Green |
Notes | 1st appearance. Next app. in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #2 (Texas Trio, December 1963). |
Characters | Dr. Rex Ward (Dr. Weird); Erla; Dr. Anton Reeves |
Synopsis | Dr. Rex Ward, a scientist from the year 2013, time-travels into the past. But on exiting his time-vehicle, he's killed by a pair of common burglars. En route to the great beyond, a mysterious voice tells him that because he died before he was born, he's become "a thing that cannot be"-- therefore, he's condemned to remain on Earth as a ghost until the time of his natural death. Taking the name Dr. Weird, he decides to "wage a never-ceasing war on the forces of evil". |
Genre | Occult; Super-hero |
Script | Howard Keltner |
Pencils | Howard Keltner |
Inks | Howard Keltner |
Letters | Howard Keltner |
Notes | 1st published Dr. Weird story. Dr. Weird created by Howard Keltner in 1941, as a tribute to Mister Justice (who was somewhat of a swipe of The Spectre). Origin story retold in FANTASTIC EXPLOITS #16 (Texas Trio, early 1970); that version reprinted in DR. WEIRD SPECIAL #1 (Caliber, February 1994). Next appearance in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #4 (Texas Trio, June 1964). |
Characters | Creg Flanders, P.I. (The Astral Man / debut); Lynn Gregory (his secretary); Zoran (alien scientist) |
Synopsis | Zoran, an alien scientist, bestows on Creg Flanders the anti-gravity powers. |
Genre | Super-hero |
Script | Tommy Fisher |
Pencils | Tommy Fisher |
Inks | Tommy Fisher |
Letters | Tommy Fisher |
Notes | 1st appearance. The Astral Man created by Tommy Fisher (possibly as a Hal Jordan-Green Lantern tribute). Next appearance in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #4 (Texas Trio, June 1964). |
Genre | Super-hero |
Script | Buddy Saunders |
Pencils | Buddy Saunders |
Inks | Buddy Saunders |
Colors | B&W |
Letters | Buddy Saunders |
Notes | 1st appearance. Next app. in STAR-STUDDED COMICS #2 (Texas Trio, December 1963). |