
Star Comics
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Star Comics".
Oct 17, 2026
Zardus...Again...Sweet Classic Comics! Black Adam! Ep. 223
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11:03John WaldonHOST
That's what I thought.
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11:05Josh CrouchGUEST
So, um, a lesser known company called Star Comics-
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11:13John WaldonHOST
Mm-hmm
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11:13Josh CrouchGUEST
... um, made like all the like cartoon comic books.
46: The Original Marvel Years, Droids & Ewoks
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4:27Alex FacianeHOST
They alternated months based on what the book said? No, no, no.
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4:33Alex FacianeHOST
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
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5:21Jesse CoxHOST
it makes a lot of sense watching when I became a comic book fan was in the mid nineties.
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5:28Jesse CoxHOST
And it was because it was because of these comics being like, we don't want to be a Marvel.
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5:49Alex FacianeHOST
Hell yeah.
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5:49Alex FacianeHOST
Yeah.
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5:50Alex FacianeHOST
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.
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6:18Alex FacianeHOST
It was supposed to be bolstered by whatever the...
Nostalgia Toy Crossovers Keep Failing! - Toy Federation Podcast
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15:00AndyHOST
They should've made, like, a Madball-
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15:00Ryan BonaviaHOST
So this is Marvel, which was still Star Comics.
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15:03AndyHOST
So it's, it's, it's p- Mar- it's Marvel, and it's...
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15:07AndyHOST
And Madballs is what, AM, AM Toys?
The Obscure Side Of Evil
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30:27speaker_0HOST
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.
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30:46speaker_0HOST
You guessed it, the green-faced, blonde-haired Karg from the Star Comics, now also wearing some shiny blue armor.
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30:53speaker_0HOST
Totally not William Stout's version.
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30:56speaker_0HOST
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.
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 46 - Man of Steel at 40 Part 1: 10 Things I Love/Hate About Man of Steel
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18:13Michael BaileyHOST
I actually tried to buy... a book on a monthly basis.
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18:17Michael BaileyHOST
And that book was Masters of the Universe, which Marvel Comics was publishing under their Star Comics line.
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18:25Michael BaileyHOST
And who wrote...
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18:27Michael BaileyHOST
The first issue of Masters of the Universe.
'80s Transforming Toys That WEREN'T Transformers! - Toy Federation Podcast
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10:26AndyHOST
Yeah.
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10:27Ryan BonaviaHOST
Star Comics.
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10:29TravisHOST
Yeah.
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10:29TravisHOST
That, that w- that was a-
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11:56TravisHOST
No, it's called-
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11:57AndyHOST
But Star
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11:57TravisHOST
... yeah, Star Comics.
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11:58AndyHOST
Okay.