She first appeared in Starfire #1 (August 1976), and was created by David Michelinie and Mike Vosburg.

But I was already writing a fairly traditional sword-and-sorcery book at the time in Claw the Unconquered, and I also had no desire to [copy] Red Sonja and simply put new names on the characters.

I wanted a tone that was more in line with Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars and Venus books, than with Robert E. Howard's muscle and magic epics".

[1] The first DC comics character to use the name Starfire was Leonid Kovar, a Russian superhero who first appeared in Teen Titans #18 (1968).

According to this original series, Starfire's world was long ago involved in a civil war between two castes: the warrior-priests and the Lightning Lords (scientists).

Sookarooth, King of the Mygorg took notice of the young girl of mixed heritage and beautiful appearance.

In Star Hunters #7 (Oct.-Nov. 1978), Starfire and Claw the Unconquered were revealed as two of the "eternal champions of the Sornaii" on the world of Pytharia (pseudo Earth).

Starfire returns in Time Masters: Vanishing Point #2 where she meets Booster Gold.