Cody Starbuck

(Star*Reach, 1978)
™ and ©1978 Star*Reach

In this one-shot by comics legend Howard Chaykin, an amnesiac castaway, stranded on a frozen backwater planet for ten long years, is finally returned to civilization, but it is a universe far different than the one he left, despite its haunting familiarity. Where the castaway remembers a dying Church finally succumbing to its aggressors, he now finds a galaxy-spanning empire, ruthlessly ruled by a brutal and perverted Emperor-Pope.

But the rescued knight is not all he appears, and a chance encounter with a long-forgotten former comrade strips away a decade’s worth of false memories, and the Empire’s single greatest enemy stands revealed! But like the universe, Cody Starbuck is not the man he once was, and the former revolutionary soon forges his own empire, taking his place in History as one of the most bloodthirsty despots of all time.

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#1

July, 1978
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Howard Chaykin