 The series was initially written by Martin Pasko, who had previously worked with Staton on "Plastic Man" and "Metal Men".After Pasko's run, Staton and Paul Kupperberg wrote the series until Cuti took over as writer with issue #24.As a direct-market publisher not distributed to newsstands, the First series was not obligated to seek Comics Code Authority approval and could address more mature topics than Code-approved comics.