Madballs

    (Star, 1986-1988)
™ and ©1986 Those Characters From Cleveland

They were once just eight normal rubber balls until they fell out of the toy truck and bounced into the property of a top-secret research facility called R.U.I.N. (“Research Unlimited In Nucleonics”). They fell into a holding pond filled with noxious chemicals. They sank below the surface and began to mutate. When they finally appeared again, they had turned into the Madballs, a collection of humorously grotesque flying balls. Each had a name to match its appearance, from “Occulus Orbus” a huge flying eyeball, to the unfortunately named “Crack Head” which looked like a head with its brains spilling out.

Like many of Star’s comics, Madballs was a tie-in to a line of children‘s toys. In this case, they were just the thing to gross out friends and parents alike (which no doubt accounted for their appeal). In the comics, they spent their time foiling mad scientists and other mutated villains such as the horrible pun-cracking cornstalk “Colonel Corn.”
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#1

September, 1986
Cover Price: $0.75
2 copies available from $25.00 		Michael GallagherHowie Post
#2

October, 1986
Cover Price: $0.75
3 copies available from $11.50 		Michael Gallagher, Dave ManakHowie Post
#3

November, 1986
Cover Price: $0.75
5 copies available from $4.50 		Michael GallagherHowie Post
#4

June, 1987
Cover Price: $1.00
1 copy available for $19.99 		Michael Gallagher, Dave ManakHowie Post
#4 (Newsstand Edition)

June, 1987
Cover Price: $1.00
1 copy available for $24.99 		Michael Gallagher, Dave ManakHowie Post
#6

October, 1987
Cover Price: $1.00
2 copies available from $4.75 		Michael GallagherHowie Post
#6 (Newsstand Edition)

October, 1987
Cover Price: $1.00
1 copy available for $7.98 		Michael GallagherHowie Post
#7

December, 1987
Cover Price: $1.00
1 copy available for $29.99 		Michael GallagherHowie Post
#7 (Newsstand Edition)

December, 1987
Cover Price: $1.00
1 copy available for $17.98 		Michael GallagherHowie Post
#8 (Newsstand Edition)

February, 1988
Cover Price: $1.00
1 copy available for $34.98 		Michael GallagherHowie Post
#10 (Newsstand Edition)

June, 1988
Cover Price: $1.00
1 copy available for $39.98 		Michael GallagherHowie Post