The team appeared a further five times in Mystery in Space, every third issue, before switching to DC's other science fiction anthology title, Strange Adventures, for "Will the Star Rovers Abandon Earth?"

In The New 52 reboot of DC's continuity, the Star Rovers are re-introduced as smugglers, first appearing in Green Lantern: New Guardians Annual #1 (March 2013).

In their first appearance, they are tasked with smuggling Carol Ferris, Arkillo, and Saint Walker into Lady Styx' Tenebrian Dominion.

The lead characters in Star Rovers were three 22nd century adventurers named Homer Glint, a novelist and sportsman, Karel Sorensen, a former Miss Solar System winner who was now a space-adventurer, and playboy Rick Purvis.

These three characters were not depicted as a team; instead, they would meet under varied circumstances, usually competing for a prize or award, and encounter difficulties in their individual efforts.

The characters then get together and pool their experiences and resources to win the day, often saving Earth or some other planet or civilization as a result.

Sorensen is unusual in early 1960s comics as she is depicted as a strong, intelligent female on an equal footing with the male characters.

After 1964, other than a one-panel appearance in The History of the DC Universe (Book 2, 1986), and an entry in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory Of The DC Universe #22 (Dec. 1986), no further mention of the Star Rovers was made until a new reading of the trio played a critical part in the three-part comic-book miniseries Twilight by Howard Chaykin and José Luis García-López (Twilight, Books I-III, Dec. 1990 - Feb. 1991).

Artist Sid Greene was fond of drawing DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz into his stories whenever he could.