Star Slammers is an American comic book series written and drawn by Walt Simonson.

[2] The series began after Simonson joined the Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) after graduating from Amherst College in the early 1970s with a Geology degree.

[4][5] As part of the group's bid to host the 1974 World Science Fiction Convention (Discon II), Simonson created what would become Star Slammers, which the WSFA published as a series of ashcan promotional 5.5" x 8.5" b&w chapter booklets printed and distributed at various conventions in the period 1971–1973, with each six-page episode appearing every three to four months.

[4] Simonson rated the early part of the work as "pretty good fan art" which, by the end, had become "marginally professional", so he bound the second half of the story into one volume and used it as his portfolio.

[4] In 2014 IDW Publishing republished the Marvel and Malibu material in an eight-issue reprint limited series,[10] with the initial 60-page graphic novel broken down into the first three issues for which he created new covers and introductory pages.