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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Wednesday Cover: Monark Starstalker

Monark Starstalker was, despite a nigh-impossible to say aloud name, a cool Howard Chaykin sci-fi creation for Marvel Comics. The interstellar bounty hunter appeared in Issue #32 of the company's "try-out" title, Marvel Premiere in 1976, but failed to earn his own series. In fact, he wasn't seen again until 2009, guest starring in Nova, and then, a few years later, a Wolverine(!) miniseries.

I have not seen any of those later appearances, but from what I've read online, they really don't sound much like the character Chaykin create in '76.

2 comments:

Craig Zablo said...

Loved the character... of course I love almost everything Chaykin does.

El Vox said...

I'd never heard of it either, but I love some of those old comics, particularly some of the 80's stuff, which is when I got back into comics after several years of not reading them.