Star Slammers – The Complete Collection

SIMONSON First created by Walter Simonson in his college days at the Rhode Island School of Design and later resurrected both as a Marvel Graphic Novel and then as a miniseries for Malibu and Dark Horse Comics, Star Slammers has been near to the artist’s heart for close to 50 years. Now completely remastered and recolored, Star Slammers is collected into one oversized hardcover volume. Additionally, printed here for the first time since the self-published offset versions of the early 1970s are the first Star Slammers stories ever conceived and executed― a historically significant treasure trove of work that has virtually never been seen before!

STAR SLAMMERS THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

Once upon a time, there was a race of men who could outshoot, outﬁght, and outkill anybody. They were paid fabulous sums to act as mercenaries. The practice became so lucrative, they decided to go into business. They became the most successful businessmen in history, and they called themselves...

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IDW PUBLISHING TED ADAMS, CEO & Publisher GREG GOLDSTEIN, President & COO ROBBIE ROBBINS, EVP/Sr. Graphic Artist CHRIS RYALL, Editor-in-Chief & CCO MATTHEW RUZICKA, CPA & Chief Financial Officer ALAN PAYNE, VP of Sales DIRK WOOD, VP of Marketing LORELEI BUNJES, VP of Digital Services JEFF WEBBER, VP Digital Publishing & Business Development STAR SLAMMERS, THE COMPLETE COLLECTION. FIRST PRINTING. MARCH 2015. Star Slammers and all related characters are TM & ÂŠ 2015 Walter Simonson. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Published by IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial Offices: 5080 Santa Fe Street, San Diego, CA 92109. All names, characters, and locales are entirely fictional: Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. ISBN: 978-1-63140-230-2 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 Printed in KOREA Special thanks to Walter & Louise Simonson, Steve Hoveke, Dr. William L. Smead, and Lillian Laserson. Star Slammers logo executed by Kim McQuaite

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Star Slammers – The Complete Collection

Published on May 11, 2015

IDW Publishing

Before Walter Simonson's work with Marvel and DC, there was Star Slammers, a series first devised by Simonson during his college days. The Slammers would later be resurrected as a Marvel graphic novel, and then a miniseries. Simonson describes it thus: “Once upon a time, there was a race of men who could out-shoot, out-fight, and out-kill anybody. They were paid fabulous sums to act as mercenaries. The practice became so lucrative, they decided to go into business. They became the most successful businessmen in history, and they called themselves…The Star Slammers!” The collected Star Slammers also features—published here for the very first time—Simonson’s earliest version of the Slammers created for his college thesis at the Rhode Island School of Design. These stories predate his first professional comics work but strongly show the artist’s keen sense of composition and design.