THE MARK presents STARLOG Magazine's DAVID McDONNELL

Starlog, the pioneering science fiction media magazine, launched in June 1976. Initially, it was intended to be a one-and-done publication entitled Star Trek, focusing solely on the space saga created by Gene Roddenberry. But lawyers intervened to avoid any hassles, and publishers Norman Jacobs and Kerry O’Quinn wisely renamed the magazine and expanded its coverage to the wider arena of SF and fantasy films and TV. So, you see, Starlog’s DNA has always been entangled with Star Trek.

Starlog was a monthly magazine devoted to science fiction films, television series, and books published by Starlog Group, Inc. One of the longest-running and most popular publications of its type. Starlog was one of the first publications to report on the development of the first Star Wars movie, and it also followed the development of what was to eventually become Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Dave McDonnell joined the Starlog fleet in October 1982 after a stint (his first professional job) at Mediascene Prevue, a magazine that examined (in a motto he coined) "Today’s Personalities and Tomorrow’s Entertainment." It was a periodical edited, designed and published by the legendary Marvel Comics writer-artist Jim Steranko (famed for his iconic run on Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and for creating the concept art that helped sell Raiders of the Lost Ark).