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Star Brand is generally regarded as the best of all the New Universe
titles. It ran 19 issues with an annual. After Shooter left, Star
Brand was one of the 4 titles remaining but was published every 2
months instead.
The only writing Shooter did for the New Universe was on the Star Brand series. He wrote the first 7 issues giving the character the proper depth and development we expect from Shooter's creations. 
There is a weapon in the universe more powerful than all others. It
is called the Star Brand. There is no more coveted, feared, loved or
hated thing in existence.
Now, this dreaded thing has fallen into the hands of Kenneth Connell, an Earthman. Another man might crumble under the burden. The Star Brand brings its bearer pain, worry, suspicion, fear -- fear that it will be wrested away into the wrong hands. Worse, fear that it is in the wrong hands. Another man might live only to pass the dreaded thing on, to find another bearer. But Kenneth Connell is a man like no other. Originally intended to be the core title of the New Universe, THE STAR BRAND was created and written for the first seven issues by Marvel's then-Editor-in-Chief, Jim Shooter and was pencilled by the great John Romita, Jr. Romita, who had a lengthy run on THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN alongside Roger Stern in the early 1980s, later became the artist of THE UNCANNY X-MEN, DAREDEVIL, THE MIGHTY THOR, and PETER PARKER: SPIDER- MAN, and is now the regular artist of both THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and THE INCREDIBLE HULK. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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