Starlight | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Schedule | Erratic |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | |
Publication date | March 2014 – October 2014 |
No. of issues | 6 |
Main character(s) | Duke McQueen |
Creative team | |
Created by | Goran Parlov |
Written by | Mark Millar |
Artist(s) | Goran Parlov |
Starlight, collected as Starlight: The Return of Duke McQueen, is a six-issue limited series from Image Comics, written by Mark Millar with art by Goran Parlov.
The 6-issue limited series which ran from March 2014 to October 2014.
Forty years ago, Duke McQueen was the space hero who saved the universe. But then he came back home, got married, had kids, and grew old. Now his children have left and his wife has died, leaving him alone with nothing except his memories...until a call comes from a distant world asking him back for his final and greatest adventure.
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