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Issue: Star*Reach #1
Publication Date: April 1974
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Issues: #1 of 19 Issues (27 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagStar*Reach
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Star*Reach Productions
On Sale Date: 04/12/1974
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 12 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Mike Friedrich
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date given in the copyright registration filing for Ed Hicks and Walter Simonson's "A Tale of Sword and Sorcery."

Underground Comix are known for using different prices, covers (art or color variations) and interior content to distinguish different printings.
1st print April 1974 has 0.75 USD cover price. Has Cody Starbuck on cover and "Green Women" on back cover.
2nd print November 1975. 3rd print April 1977.
4th print March 1978 has 1.50 USD cover price. Has "Green Women" on front cover and Cody Starbuck on back cover. Different interior sequencing.
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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:  
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Howard Chaykin; Jim Starlin (2nd, 3rd and 4th print)
Inker(s): Howard Chaykin; Jim Starlin (2nd, 3rd and 4th print)
Colorist(s): Howard Chaykin; ? (4th print)
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Cody Starbuck
Character(s): Cody Starbuck
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose 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
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Contents

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mike Friedrich (1st and 2nd print)
Penciller(s): N/A (1st print); Neal Adams (2nd print); Becky Wilson (3rd and 4th print)
Inker(s): N/A (1st print); Neal Adams (2nd print); Becky Wilson (3rd and 4th print)
Letterer(s): Typeset (1st and 2nd print); Tom Orzechowski ? (2nd print); Cynthia Dewhurst (3rd and 4th print)
Editor(s): Mike Friedrich
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose 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.
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...The Birth of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Starlin
Penciller(s): Jim Starlin
Inker(s): Jim Starlin
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Uncle Mort (host)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStar*Reach Classics #1 published March 1984
as The Birth of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 42-49 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.
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Death Building

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Starlin
Penciller(s): Jim Starlin; Al Milgrom
Inker(s): Jim Starlin; Al Milgrom
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagL'Écho des Savanes Spécial U.S.A. #3 published April 1977
as Building de la mort [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStar*Reach Classics #1 published March 1984
as Death Building [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 3-9 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.
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Fish Myths

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Skeates
Penciller(s): Steve Skeates
Inker(s): Steve Skeates
Letterer(s): Steve Skeates
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 10-11 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.
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Suburban Fish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Skeates
Penciller(s): Steve Skeates
Inker(s): Steve Skeates
Letterer(s): Steve Skeates
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 24-25 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.
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A Tale of Sword and Sorcery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Hicks
Penciller(s): Walt Simonson
Inker(s): Walt Simonson
Letterer(s): Walt Simonson
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 12-23 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.
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Cody Starbuck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Howard Chaykin
Penciller(s): Howard Chaykin
Inker(s): Howard Chaykin
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Cody Starbuck
Character(s): Cody Starbuck
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: This story is relocated to pp. 26-41 in the 2nd and 3rd printings.
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The Origin of God!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Starlin
Penciller(s): Jim Starlin
Inker(s): Jim Starlin
Letterer(s): Jim Starlin
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStar*Reach Classics #1 published March 1984
as The Origin of God! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose 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.
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Would You Buy a Used Comic From This Man?

Advertisement  on  Inside Back Cover (IBC)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for titles from Star*Reach Productions on inside of back cover.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Inside Back Cover (IBC)
Credits
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski?
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
Disclose 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.
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Death

Illustration  on  Cover, Back
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Starlin
Penciller(s): Jim Starlin
Inker(s): Jim Starlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Death
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose 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.

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