Many papers were reluctant to devote so much space to a single strip. This format allowed artist Kane great flexibility in layout. The daily strip was unique in that initially it was two-tier: each daily was twice as large as the normal daily strip. The hero's friend, Chavez, was modeled after a bald-headed Victor McLaglen.

on romance and lyricism, and I started to advance the cause of that kind of material and make it less satirical and more of a classic adventure strip. So we reworked the material, and I'm very strong. Ron had done about two weeks of material, but it was very far from where we went with it. I got a call from Ron Goulart, who told me he'd been having some talks with Flash Fairfield, who is the art editor of the comics at NEA, and they wanted to see me about going to work on that strip. In 1978, shortly after the launch of the strip, Kane recalled its genesis: Goulart also wrote two Star Hawks prose novels: Empire 99 and The Cyborg King. Kane received the National Cartoonist Society Story Comic Strip Award for 1977 for his work on the strip. Comics veteran Gil Kane provided the artwork, with uncredited help (during a period of illness on Kane's part) from Ernie Colón and Howard Chaykin. It was written through April 1979 by Goulart, followed by Archie Goodwin (1979-1980), Roger McKenzie (1980-1981) and Roger Stern (writing assist, 1979). Star Hawks was a comic strip created by Ron Goulart and Gil Kane, first published on October 3, 1977, that ran through May 2, 1981. Newspaper Enterprise Association (1977–c. (uncredited): Ernie Colón, Howard Chaykin For other uses, see Starhawk (disambiguation).

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