#robusters

Starlord No. 1, dated 13 May 1978. Cover by Ramon Sola. Below are the six different 'Star-Trooper' badges, one of which came free with each issue. They were designed by Kevin O'Neill. I didn't get the first issue. It was either beyond my budget at the time or I just couldn't find one but sadly it meant I can never lay claim to being a Laser Specialist or in the Skateboard Strike Force. I was a Warlord agent at the time though so this would likely have been a conflict of interest anyway.

The first issue only had four stories (although they would soon be joined by a fifth - Mind Wars). Both Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters went on to have a long career in UK comics and I think Timequake might be in the pipeline to be reprinted soon by Hibernia Comics.

Starlord No. 19, cover dated 16 September 1978. Ro-Busters cover by Graham Coton.

Mek-Quake's line is a play on an advertising campaign for the household cleaning product Domestos (which claimed at different times to either kill all known germs or 99% of all known germs).

Starlord No. 16, dated 26 August 1978. Ro-Busters cover by Kevin O'Neill. This was the last of three great covers that he produced for Starlord.

A 1979 ad for 2000AD and Starlord prog 101. "Charlie walks into a trap!" from my favourite Ro-busters story while the classic Mike McMahon Dredd cover from prog 61 gets another outing.