{"id":21559,"date":"2019-01-22T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21559"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:11:30","slug":"the-lost-cody-starbuck-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21559","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Lost&#8221; Cody Starbuck Story and a Cody Starbuck Omnibus is Overdue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2019\/z012219lost_codystarbuck.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My introduction to independent comics was the first issue of <em>Star*Reach<\/em>.\u00a0 It featured a Howard Chaykin <em>Cody Starbuck<\/em> story. Starbuck was a swashbuckling space pirate. Over the years I followed his all-too infrequent adventures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cody Starbuck made appearances in&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Star*Reach<\/em> issues #1 and #4<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Cody Starbuck<\/em> (self-titled issue published by <em>Star*Reach<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Heavy Metal<\/em> issues #2 through #6<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">a portfolio of prints published by Sal Q. (I still have mine!)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>Star*Reach<\/em> Companion reprinted some Cody Starbuck stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was also another <em>Cody Starbuck<\/em> story published in Spain back in the early 80&#8217;s.\u00a0 Sadly, I like many Chaykin\/<em>Cody Starbuck<\/em> fans never got a chance to see it.\u00a0 It was never reprinted in the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Isn&#8217;t it time we got a US version of the <em>Cody Starbuck<\/em> story published in Spain?\u00a0 Better yet, how about a nice hardcover omnibus reprinting all the <em>Cody Starbuck<\/em> stories, the portfolio and other bonus materials?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My introduction to independent comics was the first issue of Star*Reach.\u00a0 It featured a Howard Chaykin Cody Starbuck story. Starbuck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40110,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559\/revisions\/40110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}