Elon Cody Starbuck
Elon Cody Starbuck is a fictional space pirate created by American comics artist Howard Chaykin. He first appeared in Star Reach magazine issue #1 (1974), and also appeared in various issues of the graphics magazine Heavy Metal.
Like Chaykin's Ironwolf, Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker, Starbuck is a swashbuckling, "morally ambivalent, free-wheeling good/bad guy in a decadent, sexually explicit universe, who looks more than a little bit like [Chaykin] himself."
Publication history
Star*Reach #1 – first appearance; 16 pages, black and white. A planetary lord hired Starbuck to rescue his bride, who had been kidnapped for ransom by a monk of the Sanctuary of St.Berryl, a former leper colony.
Star*Reach #4: The Return of Cody Starbuck (1976)
Cody Starbuck one-shot, published by Star*Reach, 1978
Portfolio of four full-colour prints, published by S.Q. Productions, 1980
Heavy Metal Vol. 5 No. 2, May 1981, p. 48–59 and back cover
Heavy Metal Vol. 5 No. 3, June 1981, p. 82–89