Who Is Star-Lord? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Star-Lord is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Peter Jason Quill, with over 911 comic issue appearances. Peter Quill is the first and current Star-Lord, a human-alien hybrid and leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy. He is the son of J'son of Spartax who is King of the Spartoi Empire.

Who is Star-Lord?

Origin Peter is the son of J'Son of Spartax and the Earth woman Meredith Quill . Living on Earth, Peter's mother was killed by the Badoon because they wished to destroy J'Son's lineage. Peter survived by finding his father's element gun , which many believe to be a simple toy, so he was able to keep it through the orphanages and foster homes he went through. His new motivation for space travel is to protect Earth from the Badoon. Given a job by his mother's friend Lisa Chang , Peter got close enough to NASA to eventually steal a Kree vessel that he discovered how to operate and left for space. He was stranded and eventually met Yondu and the Ravagers and convinced them to let him join their pirate crew. Creation Star Lord was created by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan and first appeared in Marvel Preview #4 (1976). Star-Lord would later be reintroduced in Thanos #8 (2004) and this would eventually become the main Marvel universe (Earth-616) version of the character.

Key facts

Star-Lord is of alien origin and first appeared in "Starlord First House: Earth". The character is published by Marvel. With 911 recorded issue appearances, Star-Lord ranks among the most featured characters in comics.