*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: The 1978 debut of 2000 AD companion, Starlord, produced a swath of science-fiction series – ‘Timequake’, ‘Planet of the Damned’, ‘Ro-Busters’ and ‘Strontium Dog’ among them – on slick paper with more colour pages than its more famous sibling. Starlord was created as a ‘feeder’ title, intended to hopefully produce a couple of ‘star’ strips and give 2000 AD a quickie circulation boost when it was absorbed by the older weekly. After only 22 issues, it duly became part of 2000 AD, with ‘Strontium Dog’ and ‘Ro-Busters’ (later rebranded ‘ABC Warriors’) leading much longer lives than they had in their original home. The importance of those two series, and Starlord’s short achievable run status, means the series is highly sought-after today, and we’re delighted to have a virtually complete run, lacking only the antepenultimate number, but including the one-off Summer Special and five of the six first issue Free Gift variants, plus the Free Gift issues #2 & #3 – So this is a First Quenchers, Long Hot Summer, Free Gift Farrago Combo Extravaganza! Depicted are issue 1# VF with Free Gift VF (Time Warden Badge); issue #1 VF with Free Gift VF (Skateboard Strike Force Badge) ; issue #1 VF with Free Gift VF (Pilot Badge); issue #1 VF with Free Gift VF (Robot Regiment Badge) and issue #1 VF with Free Gift VF (Laser Specialist Badge) – all the first issue VF with Free Gift VF combos are £45 each. Also shown; #2 FN with Free Gift VF (Space Calculator) at £35; #3 VF with Free Gift VF (Starblast game) £35 and 1978 Summer Special VF £40.