ADVENTURE COMICS #478 [1980] features the twelfth and final chapter of the Starman space opera by Paul Levitz, Steve Ditko and Romeo Tanghal with the story "...and Death's Icy Touch Shall Come Searching...". Following his discovery of his imprisoned teacher Mn'torr last issue Starman confronts the elders of Mn'torr's people and their reasons for punishing him, and we get a short interlude with the supporting cast back home setting up future complications before a final scene with teacher and student.
They announce the story will continue in the Superman team-up title DC COMICS PRESENTS, and so it did eight months later, but without Ditko (or even Tanghal), so not relevant to this site.
A decent wrap-up to a good year of comics, highly recommended as an example of Ditko's commercial work of the period. All chapters were reprinted in THE STEVE DITKO OMNIBUS #2 [2011], and should be again next year in THE DC UNIVERSE BY STEVE DITKO OMNIBUS.
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