Star-Lord first appeared in Marvel Preview No. 4, cover dated January 1976. The character was named by Marv Wolfman, and Steve Englehart created the character from there. Steve Gan was the artist.
The late Bernie Wrightson did the inside front cover. That, along with Gan’s splash page get the colour treatment here.
STEVE GAN
Steve Gan’s splash page as published.
Scan cleaned up and bleeds extended.
Colour.
BERNIE WRIGHTSON
Bernie Wrightson’s inside front cover illustration, uncropped.
Scan cleaned up.
Logo version 1.
Logo version 2.
Logo version 2 tucked behind the cliff.
BONUS FOR SCROLLING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE
Wrightson did a second version. Scan courtesy of Heritage Auctions.
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