Created by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan, Peter Quill made his first appearance in Marvel Preview #4 (1976), a black-and-white magazine published under Marvelβs Curtis imprint.
Unlike the wisecracking outlaw we know today, this early Star-Lord was a brooding, cosmic adventurer. Englehartβs vision leaned into mature and spiritual sci-fi stories that were more 2001: A Space Odyssey than Guardians of the Galaxy.
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