Originally printed in Midnight Magazine #4... long Out Of Print...
A Day in the Life of a Young Comic Collector
Starstream…. An Adventure into Science Fiction
The Star Wars craze was going on during 1977 through 1978, being a kid at that time was so much fun! anytime we went to any department store I was always running off to the toy aisle to look at the wall after wall of Star Wars toys and of course the many other toys on the shelves Micronauts are not being one of them, I remember a lot of these being on clearance during this time, it was probably the Kenner line of Star Wars toys that pushed them out!
Check out the old Micronaught toys on the web!
I grabbed
the four different books as they were the only ones I seen at the time, mom
bought them for me no complaints, Starstream is like a comic book adaptation of
a science-fiction anthology than a regular comic book, now these comics were
very thick and they had cardstock cover and a price tag of .79 cents per
book (Expensive at that time, If I had Dad with me, it be another “Damn son
that’s Expensive” just like the Wonder Bread as told in the last issue) I did
not know that these books already been out two years prior, I've not seen them
anywhere else, perhaps Kmart decided just to leave them there or just simply
doesn't return back stock often, for that reason I'm glad or I would probably
not discover these till many years later, this is probably at the time, my
discovery of some of the best writers in our time, to mention a few Robert
Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, Larry Niven, and some more... Hell!
Even Dean Koontz is in it!
Starstream #1 1976 1976 Western Publishing Company
Writers:
Barrington J. Bayley, Arnold Drake, Joan
Hunter Holly, G. Cruz-Santos, John W. Campbell Jr., Steve Skeates, Howard
Goldsmith, Paul S. Newman, Chad Oliver, Ed Summer, Raymond Banks
Starstream #2 1976 1976 Western Publishing Company
Writers: Dean Koontz, Wallace I. Green, Arnold Drake, Larry Niven, Allan Moniz, Robert Silverberg, Steve Skeates, H.E. Arloff, Mary Schaub
I Love
these classic sci-fi stories and the art isn’t at all bad as most comic
collectors say it is. I recommend finding them for good ole fashioned reading, and if your one of those folks collecting to Slab books just to make more $$ bugger
off! Leave them be!!!
Starstream #3 1976 1976 Western Publishing Company
Writers: Jack Williamson, Ed Summer, Harry Dawes, Theodore Sturgeon, Arnold Drake, A.E. Van Vogt, George Kashdan, Anne McCaffrey, Dan Weiss
Starstream #4 1976 1976 Western Publishing Company
Writers: Poul Anderson, George Kashdan, Pamela
Eckard, Isaac Asimov, A. Moniz, Stephan Goldin, Arnold Drake, Roger Elwood,
Robert Bloch
STARSTREAM
ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE FICTION
Mr. Fright
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