interviews were supplemented with art and color photos of the stage play shot by Sean Smith. Marvel Graphic Novel (1984) The entirety of the Comix Internacional/Heavy Metal stories were published together in their first collected form in Marvel Graphic Novel No. #13 in September 1984, titled Starstruck: The Luckless, the Abandoned and Forsaked. This publication retained the Spanish color, with a few tweaks and additions in the stories. When Marvel editorial expressed concern at the violence in a scene where space Amazons defeat beastly hillbillies, Elaine Lee added a war song that repeated the refrain: "The Dromes were bad [repeated six times]/ so we had to kill them".Commander Rick. "Prisoners of Gravity: Censorship", Canadian television interview program, October 25, 1990. Marvel Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter recommended cutting three pages, and adding three new pages. The sequence with young Bronwyn falling into the tank of empathic merpeople was cut from the graphic novel, but restored and expanded in the later Dark Horse series. The subtitle was a lyric quote from Bob Dylan's 1964 song "Chimes of Freedom". The graphic novel, dedicated to director Robert Altman and author Thomas Pynchon, included a four-page glossary in the back that expanded upon references in the story, much in the spirit of the concurrent work of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This became an ongoing tradition in future issues. Starstruck: The Luckless, the Abandoned and Forsaked was nominated for a Jack Kirby Award as the Best Graphic Album of 1985. Epic Comics (1985) Marvel's imprint, Epic Comics, was created as an outlet for creator-owned, mature, experimental comics series. Editor Archie Goodwin spun the acclaim and success of the Starstruck graphic novel into an ongoing series by Lee and Kaluta. These were the first story expansions past the initial run of serial stories printed in Ilustracion+Comix International, Heavy Metal, and the Marvel Graphic Novel. A Marvel promotional magazine, Marvel Age #15 (June 1984), ran a cover story on Archie Goodwin and his editing of the new Epic comics titles and Epic Illustrated magazine. A cover cartoon of Epic characters by Rick Parker included Brucilla the Muscle as well as her Tiger Brigade shark ship; oddly, no mention was made of the impending Starstruck graphic novel released two months later, or the new Epic book series seven months away. The new series ran for six bi-monthly issues cover-dated from February 1985, to February 1986. Archie