From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >    
   > I do not remember reading this comic book back in my   
   > younger days though.  I did like the 1960s references such   
   > as Star Lord calling Rocket, Ranger Rick.  My paternal   
   > grandmother had a subscription of Ranger Rick that I read   
   > back then.   
      
   You can be forgiven for missing it, when it started in the '70s it didn't even   
   have its own title, being in some Marvel book that previewed or premiered   
   features to test their marketability.  (It originally was a smaller Legion of   
   Super-Heroes; in the    
   30th Century, a Human colonist of Jupiter --strong as they all are, and of   
   Pluto --who had the ability to transfer heat between objects to survive there,   
   were recruited by Vance Astro, an astronaut from our own near future who was   
   the first astronaut to    
   fly to Alpha Centauri... the first to leave for it, that is, others got there   
   faster-than-light, making his centuries-long trip a bit of a waste, although   
   he did rescue Alpha Centaurian Yondu, who was being oppressed by Humans.)   
      
   They tried again in the first half of the 1990s, although with an emphasis on   
   the parts of the 30th Cent inspired by Marvel characters of the 1990s: maybe   
   Homo Superior would flee the persecution of Homo Sapiens, and found a Planet   
   of Mutants, maybe an    
   alien race would find a cache of Iron Man technology and Borgify themselves as   
   the Stark, but a tribe of Humans protecting the ruins of old New York City   
   wearing the skull T-shirts of the Punisher?   
      
   In the first decade of the 21st Cent, they kept the trademark active by   
   publishing a series with a new concept.  A time-traveling Vance Astro inspires   
   a ragtag band to guard the galaxy.  I don't know if it's an accident, or   
   design, but most of the roster    
   of this version of the Guardians were created in the '70s (Rocket first   
   appeared in 1982, and Groot in the '50s when Marvel published a lot of monster   
   comics) but hadn't done a lot of teaming up or meeting before these issues.   
      
   > The wife mentioned that she liked the music mix tapes a   
   > lot.  60s and early 70s music.   
      
   In addition to being created in the 1970s, Starlord was set in the near   
   future, having been born in the "Jupiter Effect" syzygy of 1982.  (Look it   
   up.)  His theme music tickles me to no end.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
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