take over the Harvey publications, Harvey Comics pulled out of the deal due to an internal disagreement among the Harvey brothers. Harvey would cease publishing their comics in 1982. With the loss of the Harvey characters, the Marvel staff reevaluated their publishing plan and decided that their new line of all-age comics would be published under a different imprint name. History Star Comics was the name selected early on in the revamp of the publishing plan. The first comic published was the first issue of a three issue movie adaptation, The Muppets Take Manhattan, in July 1984 with a stand date of November 1984. After the Star line was launched, several of their existing, ongoing titles which were based on licensed toylines, such as G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Transformers, remained under the Marvel banner. The regular line did not appear on the stands until five months later and were launched over a two-month period with three original and six licensed titles. Fraggle Rock, Heathcliff, Planet Terry and Strawberry Shortcake were released in the first month while The Ewoks, Get Along Gang, Muppet Babies, Royal Roy and Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham followed in the second month. Top Dog and Wally the Wizard were also early Star original comic titles. In late 1985 Harvey Comics sued Star Comics for copyright infringement, claiming that Royal Roy was a blatant copy of Richie Rich. Thus the title was canceled after six issues due to this similarity. Millie the Model that was started in her own title in 1945, during Marvel's Timely Comics era, and ran until 1973, had a Star Comics spin-off (to add to its earlier spin-offs) in Misty (the Model) mini-series. In Misty, Millie heads her own modeling agency. Marvel Productions' animated series were sourced for Star Comics titles including Defenders of the Earth and "Inhumanoids". The lines' two Star Wars titles crossed over in Droids #4 and Ewoks #10. Marvel eventually dissolved the Star imprint, but absorbed several Star titles under the main Marvel banner such as Silverhawks and continued to license new properties, such as Captain Planet and Police Academy. The Star original characters (Top Dog, Planet Terry, Royal Roy and Wally Wizard) later were used in a Marvel Comics series, such as X-Babies limited series as antagonists in 2009, then Planet Terry was in Drax starting in issue #6 in 2016. Titles Original titles Misty