Unbagging The Last Starfighter

The Last Starfighter (Mad Cave) #1A Taurin Clarke Regular Release: Jul 01, 2026 Mad Cave Creators WriterDeric A. Hughes | Benjamin RaabArtistWilli RobertsCover ArtistTaurin Clarke Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada! There were three main things that dominated the summer of 1984 for me. Two of them were movies. The other was a person, though that person was in one of those two movies and was a big part – but far from the only part – of why that movie loomed so large in my mind. One of those movies was The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. The other was, as you can probably guess, The Last Starfighter. The person was Catherine Mary Stewart, who played Maggie in The Last Starfighter. She, at the same time as the movie, was first brought my attention in this inside-front cover comic book ad. Beautiful girl, science fiction movie, kid from nowhere dreaming big…how could it not…