Who Is Dreadstar? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Dreadstar is a Creator-Owned comic book character, the alter ego of Vanth Dreadstar, with over 102 comic issue appearances. The first appearance of Vanth Dreadstar was in "The Metamorphosis Odyssey" where he unwittingly assisted Akhnaton the Orsirosian in stopping the Zygotean empire by destroying the milky way galaxy.

Who is Dreadstar?

Creation Dreadstar was the first comic series published by Epic comics, an imprint of Marvel comics in 1982. The comic was created by Jim Starlin and it ran for 12 issues before it moved over to First comics and then it ran for another 38 issues. Origin Dreadstar is in a universe far away. Magic is a great power there. Dreadstar came to this universe looking for a place of peace, but a war was in progress and his world's civilation was destroyed plus his wife. With the only other survivor a cat-man he joins up with a magic priest, a telepathic woman, and a gorilla type person who is a smuggler. They fight both sides wanting to put an end to the war. He was born on the planet Byfrexia located in the Vega system.

Key facts

Dreadstar is of human origin and first appeared in "The Dreaming City part one". The character is published by Creator-Owned. With 102 recorded issue appearances, Dreadstar ranks among the most featured characters in comics.