Star-Lord: Guardian of the Galaxy

As many who read my Amazon review may know, I am an OLD SCHOOL Marvel head, who grew up during the Bronze Age, so I have a particular fondness for Marvel comics from this era. However, I did not discover comic specialty shops until the 80s, my teenage years, so up to that point, my comics were purchased from book racks at drugstores, department stores and corner newsstands. That being the case, I rarely, if ever, got to see any of Marvel's black & white magazines, so my main reason for purchasing Star-Lord, Guardian Of The Galaxy was because I never even saw most of these stories before, nor did I know much about the Star Lord character, so reading them was a welcome treat.This compilation collects several issues of MARVEL PREVIEW, a 70s black-n-white try-out comic magazine, and the birth place of Star-Lord as a character. It also compiles issues of Marvel Spotlight, Marvel Super Special, and Marvel Premier, and a Star-Lord mini series from the mid 90s.On the whole, the book was a decent read that kept me turning the pages. Story quality ranges from mediocre to solid to pretty good. The collection follows the character of Peter Quill from his origin (as the Star-Lord) through several successive space and sci-fi adventures, and finally to a jump into the future where Peter Quill is nowhere to be found, but his sentient ship, who longs for him, is encountered by an all-new being who dons the mantle of the Star Lord.My favorite stories in the collection were Marvel Preview #11, by Bronze-age X-Men crew of Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin (Starlord meet his dad); Marvel Super Special #10 by Doug Moench and Gene Colon (The Space Ark adventure), and Marvel Preview #18 by Doug Moench, Bill Sienkiewicz & Bob McCloud (The Beast Men adventure). Two more stories get secondary mentions: “Planet Story” from Marvel Preview #61(a sentient and tragically lonely planet) and the “Sandsong / Logos” tale from Marvel Preview #14 (a volatile planet housing a surprise). The stories mentioned above are all very engaging tales that will keep you turning the page to see what happens next. The ideas they collectively present are thematic, intellectual, haunting, suspenseful. The tales play out like encounters in a secret universe within the Marvel Universe—a universe as yet undiscovered by the likes of Reed Richards, Captain Marvel or The Silver Surfer.Overall, the collection was thrilling at times, enjoyable at times, but not all stories presented in here are all that great. And for that reason, I give this collection an Average 3-star rating. If you are a fan of 70s Marvel or obscure 70s comics, then pick this up. Or if, like me, you never even read these pieces, then pick this up. It may not set your world on fire, but I think there's enough in here to entertain anyone curious enough to scoop this up.

Star Lord is the leader of theGuardians of the Galaxy but before Andy Lanning created the Guardians version that is in the hit movie, Star Lord was a minor Marvel hero that appeared in some low profile Marvel comics of the 1970s and a 1996 mini series. The origin story is quality It was interesting and made you want more stories about him but most of the stories that followed were not up to the promise of the origin story. The story in Marvel Preview 11 by Claremont and Byrne was action packed and showed StarLordas a hero worth following and the story in Marvel Pereview 18 was the most thoughtful and the best of these stories The rest of the 70s era stories were mediocre to bad in my opinion with uninteresting situations and uninspired art. The mini series has a different person as Star Lord and it does not work for me because of that That version of StarLord was so uncompelling that it is no surprise Peter Quill returned as StarLord The art in the miniseries is painted art but Dan Lawlis is no Alex Ross .The art is better than the story but not by muich Theorigin story and the Marvel Preview stories 11 and 18 rate four to four and a half stars in my opinion The other six stories rate an average of two for an average of three stars The mini series is also a three star rating would be two and a half decided to raise it a half star because I like the StarLord concept even though I like it much better with Quill as StarLord If you like Starlord a lot like I do buy these solo stories if you can take him or leave him or just likehim a little bit avoid this collection

This is a pretty neat package of stories. I collected most of these when they came out and it's nice to see them get a good print job after the almost newsprint quality paper Marvel used for Marvel Preview. Reminded me how much I miss Gene Colan and the highly underrated Tom Sutton. Kind of amazing the talent they had behind all of these and yet they never could get the character to click.My only complaint, as others have said, is the three issue miniseries should not be included. Published way after the other stories and does not feature Quill. I understand that including it here is probably the only way it would see the light of day again. But it's a waste of paper and would have saved us, what, $10 bucks on the cost of the book without it?Fans of the current interpretation of the character might not get the appeal of these, but back when they came out, Star-Lord as a bit ofintergalactic coolness every few years that never disappointed.

Nice collection of early SL stories including the original origin that first saw print in Marvel Preview 4. That said, it's a "collection" from a period where Marvel was still experimenting with this character so the stories are all over the place. This is not the funny, go-lucky Chris Pratt character that a lot of readers may be familiar with today. If there's anything I really hate about it, it's the cover. Love Earl Norem, but this is the cheesiest, most campy Star Lord cover ever. I hated it when it was first used with Marvel Super Special 10. If they had to reprint a cover to do the book justice, they should have just gone with Marvel Preview 4, the first appearance.

I haven't seen the new gaurdians of the galaxy movie but I've read the other two guardian books by Brian micheal bendis. I loved this book allot. most of the stories in this collection are awesome and have great meaning and drama, but some of them are ok and a little below mediocre but I was always sucked in to the story by its beautiful artwork and adventure. I will say tho that the last three stories in the book are kinda crap. Even tho I think the last three stories are crap I still give it 5 stars because it gave me exactly what I wanted and left me wanting to read every guardian/Starlord book I can get my hands on.

If anyone watched the 2014 film Guardians of the Galaxy and wanted to get into the comic book lore of the characters, I feel I should warn you about this book.The Star Lord of this book may be called Peter Jason Quill, but his origin story and subsequent adventures are not quite the same as the modern comic run or film universe. This here is a collection of sci fi graphic novels from the silver age of comics and whilst they are very good, they don't feature the actual guardians of the galaxy, just Star Lord. So buyer beware, if you're buying this for a younger reader they may find it a bit too unfamiliar for them to enjoy it.That said, this is a great collection of well drawn well written comics that anyone with a penchant for sci fi stories can enjoy and get into. It follows the solo adventures of Star Lord as he happens upon invasions, assassinations and other acts of injustice across the galaxy that he intervenes in. Helped by his companion "Ship", a sentient space ship that he is psychically linked with, he gets involved in sword fights, space battles, saves primitive or peaceful planets from destruction and gets a little bit Captain Kirk with some of the alien damsels in distress he runs into.I haven't quite finished it yet but I've read enough to feel I can give it a solid review. Just don't expect 'Guardians of the Galaxy' style art or stories, this is a solo outing for Star Lord reminiscent of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon, so older readers may find a lot of nostalgia here, but younger readers enamored with the new Guardians of the Galaxy would be better reading the works of Dan Abnett or Brian Michael Bendis.

Delighted to have finally found the Star Lord I remember from the 1970s

A step back to my youth ............ I originally read some of these stories in the Marvel UK star wars comics.The art is superb.A very enjoyable collection.

Awesome! Great art and bizarre writing. Preferably for old-school readers.

Major star-lord stories are included in this collection as you would expect it. Early stores are more Sci-Fi story ish but still fun.