Starslayer was a comic book series published starting in 1982 by American writer and artist Mike Grell starring the time-displaced Celtic warrior Torin MacQuillon. The series backups started the tale of GrimJack that eventually spun off into it's own 81-issue long title A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ... Mike Grell (born 1947) is a comic book writer and artist. ... This article is about the European people. ...

Starslayer was originally published by Pacific Comics in February 1982 before moving to First Comics starting with issue #7. Mike Grell stayed involved for the first 6 issues, before allowing others to handle the title. It lasted until #34 in 1985. Pacific Comics was one of the independent comic book publishers that flourished in the early 1980s. ... First Comics was an American publisher of comic books. ...

The first six issues were intended as a stand alone mini-series. General concept was that Torin was taken from the past at the moment of his death by fighting Roman soldiers by the distant descendant of his wife after she remarried. His purpose was to aid in gathering a series of artifacts that could be used to rejuvenate the sun by sacrificing several planets for fuel. In the series published by First Comics he was with his wife's descendant and a robot on board the "Jolly Roger", an antique spacecraft. From there they traveled parts of the galaxy and ended up in Cynosure, the nexus of all realities for First Comics and gained a crew of pirates. Cynosure is also the name of a common ground-like plane in the Forgotten Realms Cynosure is the name of a fictional pan-dimensional city that exists within the First Comics multiverse. ...

At some point Torin traveled back to the solar system with a device that would cause a star to implode into a black hole. He used this weapon on the sun in the course of battle to destroy his enemies and spoke the name of the Celtic goddess of death, Morrigan, effectively sacrificing the star to her, causing her to gain great power millennia after the Celtic gods were forgotten and powerless. She later appeared and proclaimed Torin to be her avatar and bade him to go into the galaxy and kill in her name. Torin rebelled, which was the basis of the remainder of the title's run.

It was generally accepted that both writing and artwork deteriorated rapidly with Mike Grell's absence from the comic.

In 1995, Acclaim Comics's Windjammer line reprinted the original Mike Grell work in an 8-issue mini-series. Valiant Comics was a comic book publishing company founded by former Marvel Comics editor Jim Shooter and writer/artist Bob Layton in 1989. ...