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39-422: The comic book, created by Jim Starlin , was bimonthly during most of its run. Epic published 26 issues, after which it was published by First Comics who carried it for 38 more issues, for a total of 64 issues. The first 41 issues were published bi-monthly, after which the book was published monthly for a time, though it resumed bi-monthly publication with issue #51. In the early 1990s, a six issue limited series

78-635: A genetically engineered being created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 1960s and re-imagined by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane in the 1970s as a Jesus Christ-like figure on an alternate Earth. Envisioning the character as philosophical and existentially tortured, Starlin wrote and drew a complex space opera with theological and psychological themes. Warlock confronted the militaristic Universal Church of Truth , eventually revealed to be created and led by an evil evolution of his future–past self, known as Magus . Starlin ultimately incorporated Thanos into this story. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that "In

117-724: A brief stint with Marvel, which included work on two characters [Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock] that had previously never quite made their mark, Starlin managed to build a considerable cult following." In Fall 1978, Starlin, Howard Chaykin , Walt Simonson , and Val Mayerik formed Upstart Associates , a shared studio space on West 29th Street in New York City. The membership of the studio changed over time. Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in

156-595: A crowd-funding project for an all-new 100-page story featuring Dreadstar illustrated by Starlin himself together with inker Jaime Jameson titled Dreadstar Returns . Vanth Dreadstar first appeared in the " Metamorphosis Odyssey ", in Epic Illustrated #3. In the story, where Dreadstar is not the main character, he unwittingly aids the Orsirosian named Akhnaton in destroying the Milky Way Galaxy ,

195-399: A few notable authors from outside the comic book industry, such as Stephen King , George R. R. Martin , Harlan Ellison , and Edward Bryant . In 1986, he and Wrightson produced a second benefit comic for famine relief. Heroes Against Hunger , featuring Superman and Batman, was published by DC and like the earlier Marvel benefit project featured many top comics creators. Starlin became

234-852: A fill-in story for Ghost Rider ; Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self; and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine. Starlin occasionally worked for Marvel's chief competitor DC Comics and drew stories for Legion of Super-Heroes and the " Batman " feature in Detective Comics in the late 1970s. Starlin co-created the supervillain Mongul with writer Len Wein in DC Comics Presents #27 (Nov. 1980). The new decade found Starlin creating an expansive story titled "the Metamorphosis Odyssey ", which introduced

273-505: Is an American television production company operating within the Universal Studio Group division of NBCUniversal , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast . In July 2008, Universal Cable Productions was split off from Universal Media Studios (UMS) and placed into NBC Universal's NBCU Cable Entertainment division. Originally, UCP was set up to produce shows for USA Network , Syfy , and other cable channels, and

312-551: The Comics Code Authority . Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom , for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974). After working on Captain Marvel , Starlin and writer Steve Englehart co-created the character Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu , though they only worked on the early issues of the Master of Kung Fu series. Starlin then took over the title Warlock , starring

351-525: The Metamorphosis Odyssey and the first few issues of the Epic series in four black-and-white volumes. In 2004 Dynamite Entertainment reprinted the first 12 issues of the Epic series in two full-color volumes. Dynamite announced a full-color collection of the Metamorphosis Odyssey in February 2010 ( ISBN   9781606901199 ). A Kickstarter campaign was announced to publish a three-volume set of

390-411: The "Elsewhere Alliance". This story also explains where Oedi disappeared to during the last Dreadstar mini-series. In February 2015, a deal with Universal Cable Productions was announced to adapt Dreadstar as a scripted TV series with Chris Bender and J. C. Spink as producers. These plans were put on indefinite hold due to Spink's unexpected death. In the early 2000s SLG Publishing reprinted

429-534: The Empirical Galaxy after the events of the " Metamorphosis Odyssey ", tries to live a pastoral existence on Oedi's planet of peaceful cat-people, but his peace is disturbed by the arrival of Darklock, who wants him to get involved in the conflict between the two major forces in the galaxy, the Monarchy and the theocratical Instrumentality. Vanth refuses until the war comes to his planet, wiping out most of

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468-603: The Lord High Papal training Vanth Dreadstar's daughter Kalla. The characters from the original series, except Oedi, show up, and the series climaxes in Dreadstar apparently being accidentally killed by his own daughter. In issue #6, the final issue, Dreadstar is alive and back to his old self by the end of the story. Dreadstar and Oedi appear on the last page of ' Breed III #5 and in issue #6 along with other of Starlin's creations, such as Wyrd and Kid Kosmos as part of

507-644: The USA Cable Entertainment name, were produced under Universal Cable Productions. Since then, UCP has moved to producing shows for any network or channel, broadcast or cable. Its NBCU Broadcasting counterpart, Universal Television , has also moved to be a full-service TV studio. In early 2019, Universal Cable Productions changed its name to Universal Content Productions to reflect the move to streaming, with production of The Umbrella Academy for Netflix and Peacock . In October 2019, Universal Content Productions, along with Universal Television ,

546-886: The acclaimed miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet and its many sequels including The Infinity War and The Infinity Crusade , all detailing Thanos' pursuit of the Infinity Gems to court Mistress Death by annihilating half of all life in the cosmos, before coming into conflict with the Avengers , X-Men , Fantastic Four , and the Elders of the Universe , joined by the Silver Surfer , Doctor Strange , Gamora, Nebula, and Drax. Later, for DC Comics , he drew many of their iconic characters, including Darkseid and other characters from Jack Kirby 's Fourth World , and wrote

585-556: The baby is the personification of the Twelve Gods of the Instrumentality, which fled the Empirical Galaxy. Dreadstar finds himself once again in a galactic conflict, except that in the end he discovers he has taken the wrong side. He changes sides just in time, but the personification of the twelve gods had by this point merged with the sword of power of that galaxy and regained their full might. However they were defeated and

624-569: The character of Vanth Dreadstar in Epic Illustrated #3. From its beginning in Epic Illustrated , the initial story was painted in monochromatic grays, eventually added to with other tones, and finally becoming full color. The storyline was further developed in The Price and Marvel Graphic Novel #3 and eventually the long-running Dreadstar comic book, published first by Epic Comics , and then by First Comics . Starlin

663-608: The complete story. Jim Starlin James P. Starlin (born October 9, 1949) is an American comics artist and writer. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, he is best known for space opera stories, for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock , and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos , Drax the Destroyer , Gamora , Nebula , and Shang-Chi , as well as writing

702-654: The end of the day and there’s this image there that wasn’t there before. That’s very satisfying and I miss that." In early 2020 it was announced that Starlin had rehabilitated his drawing hand and would be publishing a new Dreadstar graphic novel, Dreadstar Returns, backed by a successful Kickstarter campaign. The book was published in June 2021. In 2024, Starlin announced that he plans to use generative AI technology for future projects, including Dreadstar vs. Dreadstar . Hardcover Softcover Universal Cable Productions Universal Content Productions LLC ( UCP )

741-475: The gods of the galaxy they were in began to take him prisoner in their realm. As he was being taken away, Dreadstar took the spirit of his teammate Iron Angel with him and then fulfilled a curse that was cast upon him (Dreadstar) that for as long as Dreadstar lived, so would the High Lord Papal. Papal was revived and empowered and battled Dreadstar until Papal's energies got too depleted and he realized it

780-442: The magician Syzygy Darklock. The stories become interwoven in each other's final pages, when the characters meet. Dreadstar and Darklock later appear in a short story in Epic Illustrated #15, which sets up the new bimonthly series. The series centered on the exploits of Vanth Dreadstar and his crew—powerful mystic Syzygy Darklock, the cybernetic telepath Willow , cat-like humanoid Oedi, and freebooter Skeevo. Vanth, newly arrived in

819-408: The master computer, and Dreadstar and his friends leave the galaxy again. Peter David took over the writing duties with issue #41 (March 1989) after Jim Starlin left the title, and remained on it until issue #64 (March 1991), the final issue of that run. Stranded in a nonfunctional ship between galaxies, the crew finds a baby floating in space, who quickly grows to maturity. It is later revealed that

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858-669: The miniseries Mystery in Space vol. 2, featuring Captain Comet and Starlin's earlier creation, the Weird. In 2007–2008, he worked on the DC miniseries Death of the New Gods and Rann-Thanagar Holy War , as well as a Hawkman tie-in which altered the character's origins. He wrote the eight-issue miniseries Strange Adventures in 2009 and in 2013, became the writer of Stormwatch , one of

897-470: The navy, Starlin sold two stories to DC Comics . After writing and drawing stories for a number of fan publications, Jim Starlin entered the comics industry in 1972, working for Roy Thomas and John Romita at Marvel Comics . Starlin was part of the generation of artists and writers who grew up as fans of Silver Age Marvel Comics. At a Steve Ditko -focused panel at the 2008 Comic-Con International , Starlin said, "Everything I learned about storytelling

936-558: The only way to stop the ever-expanding Zygotean empire. Dreadstar reappears in Marvel Graphic Novel #3 , where Dreadstar tries to adjust to a new life on a pastoral world in the Empirical Galaxy, one million years after the Milky Way's destruction, only for his new home to be wiped out in a military attack. The story happens simultaneously with The Price , a graphic novel published by Eclipse Comics , which introduces

975-406: The population. Oedi survives and joins them; Willow and Skeevo join later, though the team is in place for the first issue. Dreadstar takes the side of the Monarchy against the evil Lord High Papal of the Instrumentality, but his team end up becoming fugitives when the Monarchy falls, and go to great lengths to try to uncover a traitor in their midst. The series transitioned to First Comics just when

1014-510: The second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed by the Joker . The controversial storyline was suggested by editor Denny O'Neil and lined up with Starlin's well-known desire to remove the Robin character from Batman's storyline. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. Starlin

1053-697: The seminal storyline A Death in the Family which featured the death of Jason Todd , the second Robin , during his run on Batman . For Epic Illustrated , he created his own character, Dreadstar . Jim Starlin was born on October 9, 1949, in Detroit , Michigan . He had a Catholic upbringing. In the 1960s, Starlin served as an aviation photographer in the US Navy in Vietnam . During his off duty time, he drew and submitted various comics. After leaving

1092-405: The series of The New 52 line, beginning with issue #19. In 2016, Starlin's drawing hand was injured in an accident, which limited him to writing stories without the opportunity to illustrate them. "It takes me two minutes to write the sentence and will take the artist a day and a half to draw the scene. But there is a certain satisfaction to the drawing part … you get up from the drawing board at

1131-464: The traitor was about to be revealed, and issue #27, the first issue published under First Comics, contained this revelation. The downfall of the Instrumentality came swiftly after the transition to First Comics. Dreadstar, severely injured, went into a coma and awakened in the aftermath of the war—a bureaucracy where those with extraordinary powers, like himself, are commissioned as policemen to track down others of their kind. Eventually, Willow takes over

1170-425: The villainous Thanos which spread across a number of Marvel titles. Starlin left Captain Marvel one issue after concluding his Thanos saga. Concurrently in the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach . Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm,

1209-507: The writer of Batman , and one of his first storylines for the title was "Ten Nights of The Beast" in issues #417–420 (March – June 1988) which introduced the KGBeast . Starlin then wrote the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.–Nov. 1988) drawn by Wrightson, and the storyline " Batman: A Death in the Family " in Batman #426–429 (Dec. 1988 – Jan. 1989), in which Jason Todd ,

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1248-461: Was [due to] him or Kirby. [Ditko] did the best layouts." Starlin's first job for Marvel was as a finisher on pages of The Amazing Spider-Man . He then drew three issues of Iron Man which introduced the characters Thanos and Drax the Destroyer . He was then given the chance to draw an issue (#25) of the "cosmic" title Captain Marvel . Starlin took over as plotter the following issue, and began developing an elaborate story arc centered on

1287-522: Was a different galaxy and fled. During the First Comics run, the publisher released the Crossroads mini-series which featured team-ups of the company's major characters. One issue involved Grimjack, Nexus, and Dreadstar. This was alluded to in a later issue of Dreadstar , with several flashback panels depicting Dreadstar alongside Nexus. The Malibu series takes place several years later, with

1326-431: Was a successor-in-interest to Universal's former cable production division USA Cable Entertainment , which was obtained via Vivendi Universal's acquisition of USA Networks ' entertainment assets in 2001 and folded into NBC Universal Television Studio in 2004 when NBC merged with Vivendi Universal to form NBC Universal . Cable-produced shows by Universal Media Studios , including shows that were previously produced under

1365-899: Was fired off the Batman title soon afterward. Other projects for DC included writing The Weird drawn by Wrightson and Cosmic Odyssey drawn by Mike Mignola . Starlin wrote and drew Gilgamesh II in 1989 before returning to Marvel. Back at Marvel, Starlin began scripting a revival of the Silver Surfer series and introduced his creation Thanos into the story, which led to the The Infinity Gauntlet miniseries and its crossover storyline. Here, Starlin brought back Adam Warlock , whom he had killed years earlier in his concluding Warlock story in The Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2 in 1977. The Infinity Gauntlet proved successful and

1404-670: Was followed by the sequel miniseries The Infinity War and Infinity Crusade . In 1998, he created Hardcore Station in 1998 for DC Comics. In 2003, Starlin wrote and drew the Marvel Comics miniseries Marvel: The End . The series starred Thanos and a multitude of Marvel characters, and subsequently, Starlin was assigned an eponymous Thanos series. Starlin then worked for independent companies, creating Cosmic Guard (later renamed Kid Cosmos ) published by Devil's Due and then Dynamite Entertainment in 2006. Starlin returned to DC and, with artist Shane Davis , wrote

1443-442: Was given the opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by Marvel itself. Starlin and Bernie Wrightson produced Heroes for Hope , a 1985 one-shot designed to raise money for African famine relief and recovery. Published in the form of a " comic jam ," the book featured an all-star lineup of comics creators as well as

1482-548: Was published by Malibu Comics ' Bravura line of creator-owned titles. Jim Starlin had stated in interviews as early as 2000 that he was working on a new Dreadstar series titled "Class Warfare" (including sample artwork in Slave Labor Graphics ' The Price trade paperback ), but the last mention of this was in late 2002. In 2011, in promotion for Breed III , Starlin again mentioned the possibility of another Dreadstar series. In April 2020, Jim Starlin announced

1521-598: Was transferred from NBCUniversal Broadcast, Cable, Sports and News to NBCUniversal Content Studios . UCP announced in November 2019 the 2020 launch of their podcast channel UCP Audio. The studio will produce both scripted and unscripted content with the first scripted podcast from Esmail Corp. It was announced that Dawn Olmstead would leave in order to join Anonymous Content. In February 2021, UCP started an Asian incubator program, with Soo Hugh being one of

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