Born October 28, 1925,[1] in New York City,[2] Starr graduated from Manhattan's High School of Music and Art and then studied at Pratt Institute.

[3] Characterized by a mix of soap opera, adventure and humor, the strip featured tight, realistic graphics and, from the beginning, strong layouts, design and storytelling.

This series of graphic novels about the sexy and capable female action heroine Kelly Green, were illustrated by Drake.

[9] He also ghost wrote Rip Kirby as a favor to his friend, artist John Prentice, in the strip's final years[citation needed].

The strip had been in reprints since 1974 after a string of unsuccessful artists had succeeded the famous creator Harold Gray, who had died in 1968.

[3] Beginning in 2006, Starr produced new artwork for the covers to the ongoing series of On Stage reprint volumes published by Classic Comics Press.

[12] Classic Comics Press has announced plans to publish Cannonball Carmody in English for the first time plus excerpts of sketchbooks from early in Starr's career.