Created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, Starfire first appeared in a in DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980), in a preview story heralding a new incarnation of the Teen Titans that also introduced Cyborg and Raven.

[2] Pérez said of his design for Starfire: ...I figured based on the description, was Red Sonja in outer space, so she ended up having a visual cue from that.

Her older sister, Komand'r was the first in the line of succession, but she was crippled by a childhood illness that robbed her of her natural Tamaranean ability to convert ultraviolet light into flight energy.

Koriand'r spent living in the Citadel for six years under physical and emotional torture, even sexual abuse, until she and Komand'r were both captured by the Psions for experimentation.

Widely known to be a sadistic scientific extraterrestrial race, the Psions performed a deadly experiment on both sisters to see just how much energy their Tamaranean bodies could absorb before exploding from the overload.

was responsible of Grant's death because the experimentation was too unstable), she would also aid the Titans by protecting the planet Earth and the dimension of Azarath from the demon and Raven's evil father Trigon The Terrible, battle against the supervillain team known as the Fearsome Five, leadered by Psimon, a psychic villain who was given telepathic abilities by Trigon and acted as his agent on Earth, Deathstroke, the Puppeteer, an old villain of Green Lantern, the Titans of Myth, Brother Blood and the former members of the Brotherhood of Evil, Madame Rouge and General Zahl.

Starfire recovers and attacks her sister, beginning a new skirmish between Titans and aliens, until Lord Damyn's Psion advisor takes control of the Citadel forces.

He then pits Starfire against Blackfire in a duel to the death, ostensibly to decide Komand'r's succession and the fate of Tamaran, although he secretly plans a double-cross.

On Tamaran's surface, the death-duel results in Blackfire's seeming demise, but triggers a series of explosions that will wipe out the Vegan system (as the Psion had planned), even as the other Titans and the Omega Men are reunited on the Citadel homeworld.

after which Koriand'r is reunited briefly with her parents, King Myand'r and Queen Luand'r and her brother, Ryand'r, before returning to Earth with her teammates.

Koriand'r was attacked by an explosive on her apartment that was sent by Slade under the form of a letter that left her unconscious, she later wakes up alongside her friends strapped to a giant machine which is slowly siphoning away their life energy.

The sky outside Titans Tower grows immensely dark and peals of thunder accompanied by an omnipresent sinister laughter echoes all around them.

An impenetrable darkness blankets the Earth, and an unnatural thunderstorm assails New York and Titans Tower I, all of which are manifestations of the imminent return of Trigon.

Former Teen Titans member Lilith Clay rejoins the team to help them search for the vanished Raven, but first insists they also recruit Wally West, the former Kid Flash, because of his former close relationship with the empath.

Lilith taps the power of Raven's rings to return herself, the Teen Titans, and Arella to Earth after arriving to the ruined Azarath, which has been totally taken over by Trigon.

There, each confronts an evil version of him/herself, Starfire battles her duplicate who taunts her with an image of her homeworld enslaved by the Gordanians, and claims that she can only save the planet by returning to slavery herself.

Each of the Titans trapped in nightmares of their own worst fears is taunted by his or her evil double until, one by one, they turn on their tormenting duplicates and kill them.

During the final battle, Starfire uses her starbolt powers to protect Lilith and Arella from the falling tower and now uses them to free them from the rubble.

As the Titans approach, Trigon begins to open a gateway to his ravaged home universe, intending to recreate it by allowing it to absorb the dimension containing Earth.

Raven's soul-self, now an angelic pure-white entity serving as a conduit for the power of Azar, rises from her still form and grows to envelop Trigon, ultimately destroying him.

The form of Raven rises from the battle site and is lost to view, the darkness which had covered the world vanishes, and the Earth returns to normal.

She befriended the local Sheriff, Stella Gomez, who helped her find a place to live and constantly dealt with Kori's naiveté regarding human culture.

Kori also got to know Stella's widowed brother, Sol (who happened to bear a striking resemblance to Dick Grayson), and later began dating him.

Despite no longer wanting be a hero, trouble continued to find Kori in her new home and she was forced to defend Key West from various threats.

After being experimented on by the alien Psions, Starfire gained the ability to release her absorbed energy into powerful blasts called "starbolts."