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Issue: Star*Reach #1

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Publication Date: September 1975

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Issues: #1 of 20 Issues (28 Printings)

Title:

Variant: 2nd Printing, $1.00 Cover Price

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Star*Reach

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Star*Reach Productions

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
12 (7 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Mike Friedrich

Notes: Date taken from inside front cover

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; black & white interior

Dimensions:

Paper Stock: slick cover

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants3

Star*Reach #1 [1st Printing, 75¢ Cover Price]

Star*Reach #1 [2nd Printing, $1.00 Cover Price]

Star*Reach #1 [4th Printing, $1.50 Cover Price]

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Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Assets0

Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ? (4th print)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Cody Starbuck

Character(s): Cody Starbuck

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: After the first printing, the front and back cover art were exchanged.
1st printing 75¢
2nd printing $1.00
3rd printing $1.25
4th printing $1.50

Contents

Credits on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): N/A (1st print)

Inker(s): N/A (1st print)

Letterer(s): typeset (1st and 2nd print); Cynthia Dewhurst (3rd and 4th print)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: The 1st print doesn't specify a month of publication; the month of April is noted in the printing histories of subsequent printings. It has a text editorial by Friedrich, a dedication to Julius Schwartz and a credit for Tom Orzechowski with designing the logo.
The 2nd printing is September 1975, has different text (dated Sept. 1, 1975) and the comic strip "Observations" by Friedrich and Adams.
The 3rd printing is April 1977 uses the Becky Wilson contents frame previously used in second printings for issue #2. Story titles and creators with illustration and indicia information.
The 4th printing is March 1978 (per "The Star*Reach Companion" by Richard Arndt).
Sequence content from 4th printing.

...The Birth of Death!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Uncle Mort (host)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 42-49 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.

Death Building

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 3-9 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.

Fish Myths

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 10-11 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.

Suburban Fish

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 24-25 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.

A Tale of Sword and Sorcery

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 12-23 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.

Cody Starbuck

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Cody Starbuck

Character(s): Cody Starbuck

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 16

Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 26-41 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.

The Origin of God!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: This story is relocated to the inside back cover in the 2nd printing.
This story is relocated to p.50 in the 3rd printing.

[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Inside Back Cover (IBC) from base issue

Subject Matter

First Line: #2's Gonna Be Even Better!

Synopsis: The title is the content of a word balloon on a white background. The bottom of the page gives the name, address and phone number of the printer, Len Kneale of Graphic Media Consultants.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: This is unique to the inside back cover (p.51) of the first printing.
In the 2nd print this is replaced on p.50 with 4 quarter-page ads for Star*Reach Productions, Gorblimey Press, Colorado Comics and Comics & Comix (of Grass Valley, CA).
In the 3rd print this is replaced by a Star*Reach Productions mail-order ad (up to issue #8).
In the 4th print this is replaced by a Star*Reach Productions mail-order ad using a photo referencing a photo ad from the publisher's Dec. 1977 issues. It offers issue #13, which was due at that time but shipped months later.

Would You Buy a Used Comic From This Man?

Advertisement on Inside Back Cover (IBC) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photograph)

Inker(s): ? (photograph)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement for titles from Star*Reach Productions on inside of back cover.

Death

Illustration on Cover, Back from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Death

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Image on back cover. After the first printing, this artwork is exchanged with the Howard Chaykin art on the front cover of the first printing.