Star-Studded Comics, Pt.2

(Continued from Part 1)

Continuing where the previous post left off, here's the remaining 8 covers from STAR-STUDDED, published by The Texas Trio. These run from Jun'67-Summer'72.  ENJOY!

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 11  /  art by GEORGE METZGER   (June 1967)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 12  / 
art by RICHARD "Grass" GREEN   (October 1967)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 13  /  art by BUDDY SAUNDERS   (June 1968)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 14  /  art by SAM GRAINGER   (December 1968)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 15  / 
art by RICHARD "Grass" GREEN   (March 1969)

STAR-STUDDED 16  /  art by HOWARD KELTNER   (November 1969)

STAR-STUDDED 17  /  art by ??   (Summer 1971)

STAR-STUDDED 18  /  art by STEVE FRITZ   (Summer 1972)

THE BEST OF STAR-STUDDED COMICS   (2005)
published by Bill Schelly's Hamster Press

Art (C) the various artists
Raw scans of #11-15 supplied by Scott Stewart
Raw scans of #16-17 supplied by Lance Boucher
Raw scan of #18 supplied by Dennis Ray
Restorations by Henry Kujawa

Oh, and by the way, here's a recent pic of Buddy Saunders & his wife.  He runs Lone Star Comics, one of my favorite companies for mail-order back-issues! Buddy actually supplied me with a few of the scans I cleaned up-- what a guy!  (photo by Dan Sellers)

And here's a link to a brief interview with him...
And finally, here's the STAR-STUDDED COMICS indexes which I put together for the GCD...
...and here's the index for
THE BEST OF SSC.

Star-Studded Comics

About 5 years back, I went thru a phase where I really got into "fanzines", specifically the "strip-zines" which features original comics characters. I have virtually none of these in my collection, but thanks to a combination of Gary Carlson's BIG BANG COMICS and Bill Schelly's HAMSTER PRESS reprints, I became rather familiar with some of them.  What I found was a freshness, an excitement, and a genuine sense of FUN that has been missing from most comics put out by "the big two" for too many years.  In a better world, many of these creators and their creations would have had much wider success.

I'm gonna kick off a study of these with this page, devoted to one of the best-known and longest-running strip-zines, STAR-STUDDED COMICS.   Considering I don't have a single one of these in my collection, I had to rely on scans found online and, in some cases, those supplied me by OTHER fans who DO have the actual zines!  As usual, these painstaking "restorations" were a labor of love.  ENJOY!

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 1  /  art by HOWARD KELTNER   (September 1963)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 2  /
art & scan by BUDDY SAUNDERS   (December 1963)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 3  /  art by HOWARD KELTNER   (March 1964)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 4  /
art by BUDDY SAUNDERS (as "Don Fowler")   (June 1964)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 5  /
art by RICHARD "Grass" GREEN   (September 1964)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 6  /  art by D. BRUCE BERRY   (February 1965)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 7  /  art by HOWARD KELTNER   (July 1965)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 8  /
art by RICHARD "Grass" GREEN   (March 1966)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 9  /  art by ALAN WEISS   (July 1966)

STAR-STUDDED COMICS 10  /  art by BUDDY SAUNDERS   (February 1967)

(Contnued in Part 2)

Art (C) the various artists

Raw scans of #1, 4, 7 & 8 supplied by Scott Stewart
Raw scan of #2 by Buddy Saunders /  supplied by Dennis Ray
Raw scan of #3 from Bill Schelly's site
Raw scan of #5 from the MyComics Shop site / supplied by Dennis Ray
Raw scan of #6 supplied by Lance Boucher
Raw scan of #9 supplied by Dennis Ray
Raw scan of #10 from the eBay.Canada site

Restorations by Henry Kujawa