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Search complete. 11 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Star Comics".

Oct 17, 2026

John WaldonHOST
11:03
That's what I thought.
Josh CrouchGUEST
11:05
So, um, a lesser known company called Star Comics-
John WaldonHOST
11:13
Mm-hmm
Josh CrouchGUEST
11:13
... um, made like all the like cartoon comic books.
Alex FacianeHOST
4:27
They alternated months based on what the book said? No, no, no.
Alex FacianeHOST
4:33
So basically how it works is there was this line of comics called Star Comics because the thing that – it's funny that you say they're for babies because one of the things that Marvel Comics was really struggling with for a really long time up until about the early 80s is that they had never really succeeded at doing kids – stuff like obviously comic books are for children in the sense that like people under the age of 18 were the main audience for all the main stuff yeah of course and so you know there's a lot of violence and punching and kicking and killing and stuff going on in those early comics and then the comics code comes in and then we have like you know comics has to like adjust and evolve and become more cerebral and intellectual and by the early 80s sandman we start to get there i
Jesse CoxHOST
5:21
it makes a lot of sense watching when I became a comic book fan was in the mid nineties.
Jesse CoxHOST
5:28
And it was because it was because of these comics being like, we don't want to be a Marvel.
Alex FacianeHOST
5:49
Hell yeah.
Alex FacianeHOST
5:49
Yeah.
Alex FacianeHOST
5:50
Uh, but to to what i was saying marvel was struggling with like the children children demographic the actual baby like like who can't who can't read that well type of kids and star comics was a very short-lived uh sort of enterprise at marvel uh where from 1984 to 1988 they started a like They had a few of their own things.
Alex FacianeHOST
6:18
It was supposed to be bolstered by whatever the...
AndyHOST
15:00
They should've made, like, a Madball-
Ryan BonaviaHOST
15:00
So this is Marvel, which was still Star Comics.
AndyHOST
15:03
So it's, it's, it's p- Mar- it's Marvel, and it's...
AndyHOST
15:07
And Madballs is what, AM, AM Toys?
speaker_0HOST
30:27
But since an '87 Karg toy never existed in the first place, that particular loophole couldn't be used, so it fell to another company- Super7, who briefly took over the Classics reins to finally bring Karg to the line in 2018 with a slightly tweaked look.
speaker_0HOST
30:46
You guessed it, the green-faced, blonde-haired Karg from the Star Comics, now also wearing some shiny blue armor.
speaker_0HOST
30:53
Totally not William Stout's version.
speaker_0HOST
30:56
That said, the following year, to their credit, Super7 managed to work out a deal directly with Stout to release a wave of movie-accurate toys under the prestigious-sounding William Stout Collection, including finally a movie-accurate Commander Karg.
Michael BaileyHOST
18:13
I actually tried to buy... a book on a monthly basis.
Michael BaileyHOST
18:17
And that book was Masters of the Universe, which Marvel Comics was publishing under their Star Comics line.
Michael BaileyHOST
18:25
And who wrote...
Michael BaileyHOST
18:27
The first issue of Masters of the Universe.
AndyHOST
10:26
Yeah.
Ryan BonaviaHOST
10:27
Star Comics.
TravisHOST
10:29
Yeah.
TravisHOST
10:29
That, that w- that was a-
TravisHOST
11:56
No, it's called-
AndyHOST
11:57
But Star
TravisHOST
11:57
... yeah, Star Comics.
AndyHOST
11:58
Okay.

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